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Cruciform   Listen
adjective
Cruciform  adj.  Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cruciform" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the spacious new chapel—with its gilded shrine, picture-tapestried walls, and gorgeous stained windows, where the outside-world believers were allowed to worship—stood a low cruciform oratory, situated within the stricter confines of the monastery, and sacred to the exclusive use of the nuns. This chapel was immediately opposite the St. Francis, and to-day, as the old-fashioned doors of elaborately carved ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

... by the bracts of the crucifers. This group is easily distinguished by its cruciform petals and the grouping of the flowers into long racemes. In other families each flower of such an inflorescence would be subtended by a bract, according to the [636] general rule that in the higher plants side branches are situated in the arils of leaves. Bracts are reduced leaves, ...
— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries



Words linked to "Cruciform" :   symmetrical, cruciate



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