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• Randall-Maciver and Wilkin illustrate a vertical loom in use among the Kabyles, _Libyan Notes_, London, 1901, Pl. IX., and although the details of the illustration are not clear the text indicates the existence of one heddle: "The warp is decussated by means of a horizontal rod and leashes. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms
• Anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. ' Life Of Johnson
• This is much simpler than those reproductive organs of living Gnetales with a cone-like inflorescence that is organized by paired or decussate bracts.
• Now, referring to the ordinary notation of alternate leaves, we shall have the first leaf covered by the fifth, with two turns of the spiral; since decussate leaves result from two conjugate lines, the formula will be necessarily 2/5. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• Plato says that the "next power to the Supreme God was decussated, or figured in the shape of a cross, on the universe. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History
• In the teasels this screw-arrangement has disappeared, and has been replaced by a decussate grouping. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
• One managed a good snap at Moody's face before the pins from Ooljee's laser decussated its field, sending it flaring into oblivion. Cyber Way
• For example, many pioneer trees exhibit orthotropic (vertically oriented) shoots that successively produce leaves in spiral or decussate phyllotaxy.
• There are certain other nervous cords which decussate, are attached (to the vertebrae?), and are extended from both sides of them. On The Articulations
• Orchids, however, have all possible tetrad types: linear, decussate, square, tetrahedral, rhomboid and T-shaped are all reported, e.g. in Calanthe discolor which has a soft pollinium.