Decumbent

Word DECUMBENT
Character 9
Hyphenation de cum bent
Pronunciations /dɪˈkʊmbənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Decumbent"

What do we mean by decumbent?

Lying down; reclining. adjective

Lying or growing on the ground but with erect or rising tips. adjective

Lying down; reclining; prostrate; recumbent.

Specifically In botany, having the base reclining upon the ground, as an ascending stem the lower part of which rests upon the earth.

Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. adjective

Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex. adjective

Of a plant, which lies on the ground with tips turned upwards. adjective

Lying down; in a position of comfort or rest adjective

Lying down; reclining on the ground.

Of a plant, which lies on the ground with tips turned upwards.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Decumbent

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The word "decumbent" in example sentences

Description: A stout, erect (occasionally decumbent) herb about 1 m or more with green or red and usually branched stems. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Description: An erect or prostrate decumbent fleshy herb with spreading branches. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Description: Erect, decumbent or scandent perennial woody herb usually 0. 3-1 m high, occasionally to 2 m, usually with numerous ascending branches. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Description: An erect, decumbent or prostrate herb usually branched from the base and often less than 40 cm high. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Description: An erect much-branched herb (rarely decumbent), usually 0. 5-1.2 m high. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Stems are tufted, erect or slightly decumbent at the base, 1 to 2 feet long. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

From this hypothesis he reasons that atmospheric and oceanic masses are moved along with the decumbent nucleus with a velocity decreasing from the equator to the poles; and if the least retardation operates on the atmospheric and oceanic waters, a counter-current will be formed, flowing with the greatest rapidity where the retardation is greatest. ❋ W. Hastings Macaulay (N/A)

The branches are tufted and are usually decumbent at base, leaves quite green and somewhat broad in _S. coromandelianus_; and in _S. commutatus_, branches are usually not decumbent at base, generally erect from the base and leaves are green glaucous and somewhat narrow. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The leaves are small, scarcely 1in. long, linear, lance-shaped, and of a dark green colour; they are closely arranged on decumbent stems, which sometimes are more than 1ft. long. ❋ John Wood (N/A)

It branches freely from the base; branches are tufted, decumbent at first but soon becoming erect, slender, glabrous, compressed and leafy, varying in length from 1 to 3 feet. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

In this case the mule was found decumbent on a concrete floor. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

The stems are creeping below, erect above, and with roots in the lower internodes of the decumbent part of the stem, smooth, dull green or partly purplish. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

As one might expect, the position of greatest ease is the decumbent. ❋ Harry Caulton Reeks (N/A)

The stems are erect or slightly decumbent below, slender, rather compressed towards the base, leafy at the base, simple or branched, densely tufted and varying in length from 1 to 3 or 4 feet. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

This is an annual and it branches freely and the branches are decumbent and rooting at the nodes at the base, and erect to some extent at the free end, 1 to 2 feet long; the internodes are glabrous, thinly striate, shallowly channelled on one side. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Palpi long, slightly decumbent; third joint a little shorter than the second, with which it forms an obtuse angle. ❋ Various (N/A)

Stems are erect or ascending, sometimes decumbent at base, and rooting at the nodes, stout or slender, 6 inches to 2 feet long. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The stems are many from the root, 16 to 18 inches long, ascending or decumbent and prostrate, leafy, glabrous, rooting freely at the lower nodes, especially when procumbent. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The stems are semi-decumbent, and they branch somewhat freely. ❋ W. Watson (N/A)

This is a tall perennial grass with a creeping root-stock bearing erect stems and occasionally decumbent or prostrate stolons. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

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