Definition of Procumbent

1. Adjective. Having stems that trail along the ground without putting down roots.

Similar to: Unerect

Definition of Procumbent

1. a. Lying down, or on the face; prone.

Definition of Procumbent

1. Adjective. prone or prostrate ¹

2. Adjective. (botany) That trails along the ground ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Procumbent

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Procumbent

proctorially
proctorical
proctoring
proctors
proctorship
proctorships
proctoscope
proctoscopes
proctoscopies
proctoscopy
proctosigmoidoscopies
proctosigmoidoscopy
proctotomies
proctotomy
proctour
procumbent (current term)
procurable
procuracy
procural
procurals
procurance
procuration
procurations
procurator
procurator fiscal
procuratorate
procuratorates
procuratorial
procurators
procuratorship

Literary usage of Procumbent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"procumbent AND FLOATING STEMS. If we review the plants whose ... Where no local insurmountable obstacles exist, the procumbent stems spread out in all ..."

2. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by James Sowerby, James Edward Smith by James Sowerby, James Edward Smith (1799)
"Stem procumbent, hairy. Leaves pinnatifid. ... Stems procumbent (which Linnaeus, having it only in a dried ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... beneath : peduncles 1-5, terminal : fls. rose- colored, the sepals green. Trop. Amer. 10. elongata, Meyer. Nearly glabrous, procumbent and rooting ..."

4. An Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"Stem, in most, procumbent. S. fusca L., Honker, var. ... Stem procumbent, branches erect. Catkins erect, oblong-cylindrical. Stalk of the silky ovary about ..."

5. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"4037; stems numerous branching from the base procumbent leafy, leaves very many uniform linear-lanceolate acute tips often bleached, bract and bracteoles ..."

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