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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

decumbens

-entis

, p. pr. of

decumbere

;

de-

cumbere

(only in comp.),

cubare

to lie down.]

Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.

The

decumbent

portraiture of a woman.

Ashmole.

(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.

Adj.

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