Pressed down; lowered; put on a level with or below the surface: as, a depressed railroad. SpecificallyIn anatomy and zoology, pressed downward, or flattened from above, and therefore broader than high: as, a depressed fish—for example, the skate; the depressed bill of a bird, as that of the swallow: opposed to compressed.In botany, flattened vertically; sunk below the surrounding margin: as, a depressed plant (one whose growth, is lateral rather than upward).In heraldry, surmounted or debruised. See debruised.