Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Decumbent

Decumbent , adjective

[Latin decumbens, -entis, present participle of decumbere; de- + cumbere (only in comp.), cubare to lie down.]

1.
Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
The decumbent portraiture of a woman. — Ashmole
2.
(Botany) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem. — Gray