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Meaning of "decussate"
Decussate is a botanical term used to describe when pairs of opposite leaves are arranged at right angles to the pairs above or below
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- Crossed; intersected; resembling a letter X.
- Having anatomical structures or markings crossing each other, typically in an X shape or at right angles.
- Having opposite leaves arranged alternately at right angles.
- Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other.
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Only the upper whorls are distinctly decussate.
The epithet refers to the decussate leaf arrangement.
The subsequent whorls are inflated and decussate.
They decussate with the transverse fibres of the corpus callosum and.
Basil is a classic example of a decussate leaf pattern.
The phyllotaxis or leaf arrangement can be spiral or subopposite and nearly decussate.
The scale leaves are arranged in alternating decussate pairs in four rows along the twigs.
The two almost vitreous whorls in the protoconch are most delicately decussate.
Leaves decussate or whorled, never spiny as in some close relatives.
Its leaves are opposite and decussate.
They are arranged in opposite decussate pairs, occasionally decussate whorls of three.
Their leaves are markedly decussate.
Basal bracteoles have a decussate arrangement, which is modified to an alternate phyllotaxis distally.
Upon reaching the optic chiasm the nerve fibers decussate left becomes right.
Glycymeris decussata, or the decussate bittersweet, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Glycymerididae.
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The five to seven-veined leaves are decussate.
These neurons decussate to the opposite side ( anterolateral ), and travel up the spinal column.
It is prominent posteriorly, where the shell is conspicuously decussate.
Both of the arms initiate inflorescence branches, first in a decussate pattern, then in a 2/5 phyllotactic spiral.
The species ' leaves are always placed opposite, and are normally decussate.
The carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus L., a species with decussate phyllotaxis, has a helicoidal one-quarter cladotaxis branching pattern.
Its stems were slender, with opposite and decussate leaves.
The leaves are in opposite decussate pairs and vary in sizes from around 2-4 cm . long.
Two arrangements in tetrads could be detected, isobilateral and decussate types.
Leaves are simple, opposite, and decussate.
