Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lying face down; prone.
- adjective Botany Trailing along the ground but not rooting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anatomy and zoology, directed forward and slightly upward: contrasted with decumbent.
- Lying down or on the face; prone.
- In botany, trailing; prostrate; unable to support itself, and therefore lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots: as, a procumbent stem.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lying down, or on the face; prone.
- adjective (Bot.) Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
prone orprostrate - adjective botany That
trails along the ground
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having stems that trail along the ground without putting down roots
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In archaeopterygids for example, the premaxillary teeth are more peg-like and more procumbent than are the other teeth.
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006
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In Caudipteryx, four procumbent teeth are present in each premaxilla, but the rest of the skull is edentulous.
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006
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The somewhat similar Omnivoropteryx, also from the Jiufutang Formation, was also short-skulled, and also has just a few procumbent teeth restricted to the premaxillae (Czerkas & Ji 2002).
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The unusual long-armed Sapeornis, also from the Jiufutang Formation, had a rather short, Caudipteryx-like skull, and short, conical, unserrated, procumbent teeth projected from its premaxillae (Zhou & Zhang 2003).
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006
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In Caudipteryx, four procumbent teeth are present in each premaxilla, but the rest of the skull is edentulous.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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In archaeopterygids for example, the premaxillary teeth are more peg-like and more procumbent than are the other teeth.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The major recent invasion there by procumbent pearlwort required an eradication program during 1999-2000 and the weed will need monitoring and containment for several years.
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Only four alien species are widespread on the island, but the integrity of the ecosystem has recently been threatened by the invasion of an alien groundcover, procumbent pearlwort Sagina procumbens.
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The unusual long-armed Sapeornis, also from the Jiufutang Formation, had a rather short, Caudipteryx-like skull, and short, conical, unserrated, procumbent teeth projected from its premaxillae (Zhou & Zhang 2003).
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The somewhat similar Omnivoropteryx, also from the Jiufutang Formation, was also short-skulled, and also has just a few procumbent teeth restricted to the premaxillae (Czerkas & Ji 2002).
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006
asativum commented on the word procumbent
The incumbent was found recumbent among the procumbent subshrubs.
April 17, 2008