Procumbent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lying face down; prone.
  • adj. Botany Trailing along the ground but not rooting: a procumbent vine.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. prone or prostrate
  • adj. That trails along the ground
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Lying down, or on the face; prone.
  • adj. Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Lying down or on the face; prone.
  • In botany, trailing; prostrate; unable to support itself, and therefore lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots: as, a procumbent stem.
  • In anatomy and zoology, directed forward and slightly upward: contrasted with decumbent.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having stems that trail along the ground without putting down roots
  • Equivalent
    unerect   
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    Words with the same meaning
    prone    trailing    prostrate