Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bending or bent downward; declining: applied to stamens when they are thrown to one side of a flower, as in
Amaryllis ; also applied to mosses. Alsodeclined and declinous. - In zoology, declined; bending or sloping downward; declivous: opposed to acclinate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.
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- adjective Bent downward or aside.
- adjective botany Bending downward in a curve; declined.
Etymologies
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Latin declinatus, past participle of declino ("I decline").
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Et dixit, Ecce, nunc domini mei, declinate obsecro ad domum servi vestri, et pernoctate, et lavate pedes vestros: et mane surgetis, et pergetis in viam vestram.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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