'Decumbent' definitions:

Definition of 'decumbent'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Lying down; in a position of comfort or rest [syn: accumbent, decumbent, recumbent]

Definition of 'Decumbent'

From: GCIDE
  • Decumbent \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. [1913 Webster]
  • The decumbent portraiture of a woman. --Ashmole. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

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