Cruciate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Arranged in or forming a cross; cruciform.
  • adj. Overlapping or crossing, as the wings of some insects when at rest.
  • adj. Shaped like a cross: the cruciate ligaments of the knee.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. In the form of a cross; cruciform.
  • adj. Overlapping or crossing.
  • v. To torture; to torment.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Tormented.
  • adj. Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.
  • v. To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See excruciate.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To torture; torment; afflict with extreme pain or distress; excruciate.
  • Tormented; excruciated.
  • In botany, having the form of a cross with equal arms, as the flowers of mustard, etc.; cruciform: applied also to tetraspores of red marine algæ. See tetraspore.
  • In zöol., crucial or cruciform; crossed or cross-shaped; specifically, in entomology, crossing each other diagonally in repose, as the wings of many hymenopterous insects and the hemelytra of the Heteroptera.
  • n. An obsolete form of crusade.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. shaped like a cross
    • Equivalent
    symmetrical    symmetric   
    Cross Reference
    cruciate prothorax    pronotum    cruciate anther   
    Variant
    excruciate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tormented    cruciform    torture   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    uterosacral    mediastinum    overstrung    patellar    thoracotomy   
     
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