In botany, declined or bending down; having the stamens and pistils bending down to the lower side; as a decumbent flower.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
2. Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.
Horizontality Roget’s Thesaurus §213
N. horizontality, flatness, level, # plane, stratum, dead level, dead flat, level plane, recumbency, lying down, reclination, decumbence, decumbency, discumbency|, proneness, accubation, supination, resupination, prostration, azimuth, plain, floor, platform, bowling green, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, billiard table, terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre, table land, plateau, ledge, butte, mesa (plain) 344, level, spirit level
V. be horizontal, lie, recline, couch, lie down, lie flat, lie prostrate, sprawl, loll, sit down, render horizontal, lay down, lay out, level, flatten, prostrate, knock down, floor, fell
Adj. horizontal, level, even, plane, flat, flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green, alluvial, calm, calm as a mill pond, smooth, smooth as glass, recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent, lying, prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant
Adv. horizontally, on one's back, on all fours, on its beam ends
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