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cruciate

/kroo-shee-it, -eyt/US // ˈkru ʃi ɪt, -ˌeɪt //UK // (ˈkruːʃɪɪt, -ˌeɪt) //

十字架,十字架上的,十字架式,十字架上

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : shaped like a cross; cross-shaped.
    • : Botany. having the form of a cross with equal arms, as the flowers of mustard.
    • : Entomology. crossing diagonally when at rest, as the wings of certain insects.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incrucifix

Examples

  • That action puts a stress in the anterior cruciate ligament.

  • Cruciato-complicatus: folded crosswise: incumbent wings when the inner margins overlap; not well distinguished from cruciate.

  • It may even slip past the condyle and into the intercondyloid notch, and come to lie against the cruciate ligaments.

  • Each pileated piece of the skeleton has four equal, cruciate, triangular meshes.

  • The lateral branches of the styles are usually very numerous and regularly cruciate in alternating opposite pairs.