Meaning of DECUMBENT
| Pronunciation: | | di'kumbunt
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| | Definition: | | [adj] lying down; in a position of comfort or rest |
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| | Synonyms: | | accumbent, reclining, recumbent, unerect |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Definition: | | Spreading horizontally but then growing upwards. |
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