Definitions for cruciate

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cruciate cru·ci·ate

Spelling: [kroo-shee-it, -eyt]

IPA: /ˈkru ʃi ɪt, -ˌeɪt/

Cruciate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in cruciate (acceirtu).

Definitions for cruciate

adjective

1. shaped like a cross; cross-shaped.
2. Botany. having the form of a cross with equal arms, as the flowers of mustard.
3. Entomology. crossing diagonally when at rest, as the wings of certain insects.

Origin of cruciate

1675-85; New Latin cruciātus, equivalent to Latin cruci- (stem of crux) cross + -ātus -ate¹

Examples for cruciate

Each pileated piece of the skeleton has four equal, cruciate, triangular meshes.

It may even slip past the condyle and into the intercondyloid notch, and come to lie against the cruciate ligaments.

Cruciato-complicatus: folded crosswise: incumbent wings when the inner margins overlap; not well distinguished from cruciate.