decussated

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adjective

Crossed or intersected in the form of an X.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of decussate
adjectivedecussated (comparative more decussated, superlative most decussated)

comparative more decussated · superlative most decussated

  1. Crossed or intersected in the form of an X.
    1 more example

    Over the centuries the movement of clans and tribes of people has provided the kind of crop that would emerge if a blind god had sprinkled seeds at random on a field - a vast array of diverse patterns, usually not even interlocking or decussated, but crossed and intersected by every kind of structured diversity.

    1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 137
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