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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Shaped like a cross; cruciate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Cross-shaped; cruciate; disposed in the form of a cross: as, in anatomy, the cruciform ligament of the atlas.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having the shape of a cross.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. shaped like a cross

Etymologies

  1. Latin crux, cruc-, cross + -form.

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  • bilby "It's late afternoon, we've had tea, we go and visit the Duomo; this was an interesting vaulted shopping Arcade, high enough for pigeons to fly within it. It's cruciform in shape; after four hours walking around, so were we."
    - Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall'. Apr 25, 2009

  • mollusque Citation at tsoureki. Aug 6, 2008

‘cruciform’ has been looked up 1446 times, loved by 4 people, added to 21 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 18.