Usually means: Crossing or intersecting in pairs.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. decussate: Merriam-Webster
  2. decussate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decussate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decussate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decussate: Vocabulary.com
  6. decussate: Wordnik
  7. decussate: Wiktionary
  8. decussate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. decussate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. decussate: Dictionary.com
  11. Decussate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Decussate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. decussate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. decussate: Rhymezone
  15. Decussate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. decussate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. decussate: FreeDictionary.org
  18. decussate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. decussate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. decussate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decussate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decussate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. decussate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. decussate: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (decussate)

adjective:  Crossed; intersected; resembling a letter X.
adjective:  (zoology) Having anatomical structures or markings crossing each other, typically in an X shape or at right angles.
adjective:  (botany) Having opposite leaves arranged alternately at right angles.
adjective:  (rhetoric) Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other.
verb:  To form an X or to cross or intersect.

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