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How to use decussate in a sentence

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For example, many pioneer trees exhibit orthotropic shoots that successively produce leaves in spiral or decussate phyllotaxy.
This is much simpler than those reproductive organs of living Gnetales with a cone-like inflorescence that is organized by paired or decussate bracts.
This plant resembles some trimerophytes, such as Pertica, in that it has three-dimensional branching with branches arranged in a spiral or decussate pattern.
Found on young shoots, generally decussate or rarely whorled, 2-4 mm in diameter.
All efferent and afferent pathways between the cerebrum and cerebellum course through the brainstem, and many of them decussate, or cross, within this structure.
In the lower medulla about 90 percent of the fibres of the corticospinal tract decussate and descend in the dorsolateral funiculus of the spinal cord.
A remarkable maize mutant, aberrant phyllotaxy1 displays a decussate phyllotactic pattern while wild type maize develops as distichous plants.
Clove stalks are slender stems of the inflorescence axis that show opposite decussate branching.
The other two locally occurring Bittersweets are the Decussate Bittersweet and the Atlantic Bittersweet.
Examples from Classical Literature
These are sometimes marked with a decussate cross, as was done to facilitate fracture during administration.
The whorls or pairs alternate or cross each other, usually at right angles, that is, they decussate.
Thus, leaves normally opposite and decussate may, by fusion, become alternate.
The remaining fibres pass down as the direct pyramidal tract, and decussate in the cord near their termination.
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