Crossword-Solution: DECUMBENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decumbent | a. | Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. |
| Decumbent | a. | Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “DECUMBENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| GROWING along ground | 1 answer |
| LYING along ground (bot./zool.) | 1 answer |
| LYING flat on surface (bot./zool.) | 1 answer |
| Reclining. | 26 answers |
| flat | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DECUMBENT (5)
Moreover, the Torreya of Florida is associated with a yew; and the trees of this grove are the only yew-trees of Eastern North America; for the yew of our Northern woods is a decumbent shrub.
Lower down the same, or similar features continue, and the only plants limited to this side are a curious Astragalus, Crotalarioid, Polygonum fruticosa, microphyllum, and spinosum, a Boraginea like that of Jugdulluck, but much smaller and decumbent, a Papaveraceae, petalis Papaveris Rhoeadis, with a siliquose fruit, and Clematis erecta: willow trees (the broad leaved species) occur here, a large Agrostic grass, Ribes and Symphorema of Erak.
Hence in fevers with debility, a decumbent posture is preferred, with silence, little light, and such a quantity of heat as may prevent any chill sensation, or any coldness of the extremities.
Palpi long, slightly decumbent; third joint a little shorter than the second, with which it forms an obtuse angle.
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.