De-cūm'bent, a.
a. [Lat. decumbens, p. pr. of decumbere, from de and cumbere, for cubare, to lie down.]
- Bending or lying down; prostrate; recumbent. The decumbent portraiture of a woman resting on a death's head. Ashmole.
- (Bot.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit; as, a decumbent stem. Gray.