Decussate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cross or become crossed so as to form an X; intersect.
  • adj. Intersected or crossed in the form of an X.
  • adj. Botany Arranged on a stem in opposite pairs at right angles to those above or below, resulting in four vertical rows: decussate leaves.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Crossed; intersected; resembling a letter X.
  • adj. Having opposite leaves arranged alternately at right angles.
  • adj. Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other.
  • v. To form an X or to cross or intersect.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.
  • adj. Crossed; intersected.
  • adj. Growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below.
  • adj. Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To intersect; cross, as lines, rays of light, leaves, or fibers of nerves.
  • Crossed; intersected: specifically applied, in bot, to bodies which are arranged in pairs alternately crossing each other at regular angles.
  • In rhetoric, arranged in two pairs of repeated, contrasted, or parallelized words or phrases, the second pair reversing the order of the first; characterized by or constituting such an arrangement; chiastic. See chiasmus.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cross or intersect so as to form a cross
  • adj. crossed or intersected in the form of an X
    • Equivalent
    crossed    decussated   
    Verb Form
    decussated    decussating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cross   
    Cross Reference
    decussate antennæ   
    Form
    decussated    decussating   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    intersect    crossed    intersected    cross   
     
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