Meaning of decussate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Crossed; intersected; resembling a letter X.
2. Having anatomical structures or markings crossing each other, typically in an X shape or at right angles.
3. Having opposite leaves arranged alternately at right angles.
4. Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other.
   rhetoric

Examples

“Juniperites, ju-ne-per-i′tis, s[ubstantive]. A genus of fossil plants, in which the branches are ranged irregularly; leaves short, obtuse, inserted by a broad base, opposite, decussate, and arranged in four rows.”

“a decussated period”

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