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Decumbent definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DECUMBENT, a. In botany, declined or bending down; having the stamens and pistils bending down to the lower side; as a decumbent flower.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lying down; in a position of comfort or rest [syn: accumbent, decumbent, recumbent]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin decumbent-, decumbens, present participle of decumbere to lie down, from de- + -cumbere to lie down; akin to Latin cubare to lie Date: 1656 1. lying down 2. of a plant reclining on the ground but with ascending apex or extremity

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. Bot. & Zool. (of a plant, shoot, or bristles) lying along the ground or a surface. Etymology: L decumbere decumbent- lie down

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Decumbent De*cum"bent, a. [L. decumbens, -entis, p. pr. of decumbere; de- + cumbere (only in comp.), cubare to lie down.] 1. Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. The decumbent portraiture of a woman. --Ashmole. 2. (Bot.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem. --Gray.