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DECUMBENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does decumbent mean?
• DECUMBENT (adjective)
The adjective DECUMBENT has 1 sense:
1. lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
Familiarity information: DECUMBENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
Synonyms:
accumbent; decumbent; recumbent
Similar:
unerect (not upright in position or posture)
Context examples
Like all Asteraceae, the flowers are a composite inflorescence, with purple (rarely yellow or white) florets arranged in a prominent, somewhat cone-shaped head; cone-shaped because the petals of the outer ray florets, once the flower head opens, tend to point downward (are decumbent), thus forming a cone.
(Echinacea, NCI Thesaurus)
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