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Decumbent   Listen
adjective
Decumbent  adj.  
1.
Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. "The decumbent portraiture of a woman."
2.
(Bot.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.






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"Decumbent" Quotes from Famous Books



... of clouds that makes the sunset lovely. The bosomy vapours of Dove's soul are the palette upon which the decumbent sun of his spirit casts its vivid orange and scarlet colours. His joy is the more perfect to behold because it bursts goldenly through the pangs of his tender heart. His soul is like the infant Moses, cradled among dark and prickly bullrushes; but anon it floats out upon the river and drifts ...
— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley



Words linked to "Decumbent" :   accumbent, unerect



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