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(of a plant) lying along the ground or along a surface, with the extremity curving upwards.
‘There are no trees in this area, shrubs are typically lower than 2 m and restricted to narrow riparian bands, vegetation is either absent or decumbent, and searches were conducted before the emergence of leaves.’
‘P. myriophylla is a woody subshrub that forms patches of prostrate or decumbent stems often rooting at the nodes.’
‘However, most of the material was atypical being much smaller in all aspects, often decumbent, with club-shaped, pubescent capsules.’
‘The occurrence of trees with decumbent stem form was also noted and leaning of the stem from a vertical posture was visually assessed.’
‘They grow upward from the basal branehes and only become decumbent after they have grown a few centimeters.’
Origin
Late 18th century: from Latin decumbent- ‘lying down’, from the verb decumbere, based on de- ‘down’ + a verb related to cubare ‘to lie’.