Marked with or arranged in the form of a cross or cross-shaped pattern; cross-hatched.
From Latin crociatus, related to croce (cross). This botanical and heraldic term describes things with cross-shaped markings or arrangements.
Many biological structures are crociate—plants arrange leaves in cross patterns, and insects have cross-shaped markings for camouflage, showing how nature keeps discovering the efficiency of the cross shape.
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