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Decumbent
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. The decumbent portraiture of a woman. Ashmole.
2. Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem. Gray.