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

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