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Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
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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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a. (L. decumbere, to lie down) trailing on the ground and rising at the tip, as some stems.
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laying or growing on the ground but the tips are erect or growing upright.
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1). The stem lying on the ground and tending to rise at the end. 2). Lying flat with the apex ascending.
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spreading horizontally but then growing upwards.
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Habit which is weeping or 'reclining' with tips then ascending
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Curved upward from a horizontal or inclined base, e.g. stems.
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Running horizontally with the tips ascending.
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when a section of the stem lie on the soil before growing upwards.
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Bending downward; bending downward at the tip from an erect base.
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Stems or brfanches in an inclined position, but the end ascending.
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Bent over or prostrate at the base but becoming erect in the upper parts.
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lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
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flat on the ground, but with upturned tips
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With a horizontal or inclined base that curves upward into an erect or ascending tip; as in some grass stems.
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lying flat (usually with tip raised).
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(adj.) Reclining on the ground, and with the growing end ascending.
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The stems or branches recline on the ground, but the seed head is upright.   See drawing of stem forms.
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Reclining on the ground with the tip ascending.
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(dee-KUM-bent) -- A reclining stem with the tip turned upwards.
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Lying on the ground but having an ascending tip.
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Reclining or lying on the ground, but with the end ascending.
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flat-lying, used in reference to the position of zooids as the growing edge of the colony.
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Resting on the ground, but with the tip rising up (in contrast to prostrate, in which a structure lies completely flat on the ground).
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Reclining or lying on the ground with the tips ascending
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With a prostrate or curved base and an erect or ascending tip.
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Lying down, but with the tip ascending.
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