In this case the mule was found decumbent on a concrete floor. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
As one might expect, the position of greatest ease is the decumbent. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
Description: An erect or prostrate decumbent fleshy herb with spreading branches. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Description: An erect much-branched herb (rarely decumbent), usually 0. 5-1.2 m high. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Description: An erect, decumbent or prostrate herb usually branched from the base and often less than 40 cm high. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Description: Erect, decumbent or scandent perennial woody herb usually 0. 3-1 m high, occasionally to 2 m, usually with numerous ascending branches. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
It branches freely from the base; branches are tufted, decumbent at first but soon becoming erect, slender, glabrous, compressed and leafy, varying in length from 1 to 3 feet. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The aerial branches are tufted, erect or decumbent and geniculately ascending when in flower, much branched from the base, 6 to 24 inches long (under favourable conditions may reach even 3 to 4 feet in length). From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
This is an annual and it branches freely and the branches are decumbent and rooting at the nodes at the base, and erect to some extent at the free end, 1 to 2 feet long; the internodes are glabrous, thinly striate, shallowly channelled on one side. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Sometimes prone, sometimes supine, but always decumbent. From Wordnik.com. [A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians] Reference
It is decumbent, and difficult to harvest for hay when seeded alone. From Wordnik.com. [Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement] Reference
The arrows of the decumbent sun gilded the ripening grapes above them. From Wordnik.com. [In the Sweet Dry and Dry] Reference
Unless you accept this and accept a adjustment for ambidextrous with it, you will ALWAYS be decumbent to alternate binging. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Pipefuls] Reference
Stem decumbent and compressed, ascending and surmounted with a dense compressed panicle, somewhat onesided, and provided with short bluish green linear leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
In some dark or shady places, and under some kinds of trees, it is practically impossible to secure a good lawn, and one may be obliged to resort to decumbent bushes or other forms of planting. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
It has a fibrous, perennial root, of a pale or whitish color, stem rises from four to six inches high, is decumbent or bending, the leaves grow out on the sides of the stem, and when the stem is straightened or made stand erect, the leaves stand edgeways in the same manner as the tansy leaf; they are smooth, of a deep. From Wordnik.com. [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference
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