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Decumbent   Listen
adjective
Decumbent  adj.  
1.
Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. "The decumbent portraiture of a woman."
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.






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"Decumbent" Quotes from Famous Books



... quarter of the city was incredibly still. As the light ebbed slowly, and broad blue shadows crept across the patch of turf, they sat in a silence broken only by the wiry cheep of sparrows and the distant moan of trolley cars. The arrows of the decumbent sun gilded the ripening grapes above them. Suddenly there were two loud bangs and a vicious whistle sang through the arbor. Broken twigs eddied ...
— In the Sweet Dry and Dry • Christopher Morley



Words linked to "Decumbent" :   unerect, accumbent, recumbent



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