How To Use decumbent In A Sentence
- Stems are creeping and spreading from the root, and ascending from a decumbent base, generally slender and small, but sometimes large and proliferously branched, leafy, 3 to 7 inches long. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- Description: An erect much-branched herb (rarely decumbent), usually 0. 5-1.2 m high. Chapter 7
- Description: A stout, erect (occasionally decumbent) herb about 1 m or more with green or red and usually branched stems. Chapter 7
- Palpi long, slightly decumbent; third joint a little shorter than the second, with which it forms an obtuse angle. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
- P. myriophylla is a woody subshrub that forms patches of prostrate or decumbent stems often rooting at the nodes.
- The stems are semi-decumbent, and they branch somewhat freely. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
- -- (Fig. 140.) "Shell fusiform, ventricose; whirls compressed above, spirally and transversely striated; striae wrinkled and coarse at base; spire short and sub-cancellated, papillated; aperture semi-lunar; outer lip acute, smooth within; columella lip very thin, decumbent, almost obsolete, semi-callous, not distinguishable from the body-whirl, but by outline and color. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
- Description: Erect, decumbent or scandent perennial woody herb usually 0. 3-1 m high, occasionally to 2 m, usually with numerous ascending branches. Chapter 7
- There are no trees in this area, shrubs are typically lower than 2 m and restricted to narrow riparian bands, vegetation is either absent or decumbent, and searches were conducted before the emergence of leaves.
- The leaves are small, scarcely 1in. long, linear, lance-shaped, and of a dark green colour; they are closely arranged on decumbent stems, which sometimes are more than 1ft. long. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
