Thesaurus: decumbent

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1. a. Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
2. a. Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.
3. adj. lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
4. 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.
5. Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tendingto rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem. Gray.
6. s lying down; in a position of comfort or rest