Decumbent

[di'kʌmbәnt]

Definition

(a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.

(a.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.

Checker: Zelig

Definition

adj. lying down: reclining on the ground.—ns. Decubā′tion Decum′bence Decum′bency the act or posture of lying down.—adj. Decū′bital—n. Decū′bitus a recumbent position as of one sick in bed: a bed-sore.—adv. Decum′bently.—n. Decum′biture the time when a sick person takes to bed.

Typist: Nora