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Procumbent   Listen
adjective
Procumbent  adj.  
1.
Lying down, or on the face; prone. " Procumbent each obeyed."
2.
(Bot.) Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem.





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"Procumbent" Quotes from Famous Books



... branches downward in loops that touch the ground and trip up the unwary pedestrian, who presumably hobbles off in pain, the bush received a name with which the stumbler will be the last to find fault. From the bark of the Wayfaring Tree of the Old World (V. lantana), the tips of whose procumbent branches often take root as they lie on the ground, is obtained bird-lime. No warm, sticky scales enclose the buds of our hardy hobble-bush; the only protection for its tender baby foliage is in the scurfy coat on its twigs; yet with this ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan


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