How to pronounce quincunx

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What quincunx means

noun

Five things arranged like the dots on a dice face

In a sentence: The gardener planted five trees in a quincunx, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Where it comes from: Borrowed from Latin, where it was a coin worth five-twelfths. It was marked with five dots.

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