decussate

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In basil plants, each leaf is about 90 degrees — a quarter-turn — from the last, a template called “decussate.”

From New York Times

In his famous dictionary Samuel Johnson notoriously, and gloriously, defined the word “network” as “any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.”

From Washington Post

It consisted of the last letter of the Samaritan alphabet, the tau or tav in its decussated or most primitive form, and may be described, as it has been sometimes, as a cruciform hammer.

From Project Gutenberg

Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

From Project Gutenberg

A decussated cross, on which St. Andrew was crucified, indicates his day.

From Project Gutenberg