Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lying down; reclining.
- adjective Botany Lying or growing on the ground but with erect or rising tips.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying down; reclining; prostrate; recumbent.
- Specifically In botany, having the base reclining upon the ground, as an ascending stem the lower part of which rests upon the earth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
- adjective (Bot.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Of a plant, which lies on the ground with tips turned upwards.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Description: An erect, decumbent or prostrate herb usually branched from the base and often less than 40 cm high.
Chapter 7 1999
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Description: A stout, erect (occasionally decumbent) herb about 1 m or more with green or red and usually branched stems.
Chapter 7 1999
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Description: An erect or prostrate decumbent fleshy herb with spreading branches.
Chapter 7 1999
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Description: Erect, decumbent or scandent perennial woody herb usually 0. 3-1 m high, occasionally to 2 m, usually with numerous ascending branches.
Chapter 7 1999
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Description: An erect much-branched herb (rarely decumbent), usually 0. 5-1.2 m high.
Chapter 7 1999
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As one might expect, the position of greatest ease is the decumbent.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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From this hypothesis he reasons that atmospheric and oceanic masses are moved along with the decumbent nucleus with a velocity decreasing from the equator to the poles; and if the least retardation operates on the atmospheric and oceanic waters, a counter-current will be formed, flowing with the greatest rapidity where the retardation is greatest.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay
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The leaves are small, scarcely 1in. long, linear, lance-shaped, and of a dark green colour; they are closely arranged on decumbent stems, which sometimes are more than 1ft. long.
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Palpi long, slightly decumbent; third joint a little shorter than the second, with which it forms an obtuse angle.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The stems are semi-decumbent, and they branch somewhat freely.
asativum commented on the word decumbent
See cumbent.
April 17, 2008