How To Use Decumbent In A Sentence
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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
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Description: An erect much-branched herb (rarely decumbent), usually 0. 5-1.2 m high.
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Description: A stout, erect (occasionally decumbent) herb about 1 m or more with green or red and usually branched stems.
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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
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P. myriophylla is a woody subshrub that forms patches of prostrate or decumbent stems often rooting at the nodes.
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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
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-- (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
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Description: Erect, decumbent or scandent perennial woody herb usually 0. 3-1 m high, occasionally to 2 m, usually with numerous ascending branches.
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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.
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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.
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However, most of the material was atypical being much smaller in all aspects, often decumbent, with club-shaped, pubescent capsules.
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The occurrence of trees with decumbent stem form was also noted and leaning of the stem from a vertical posture was visually assessed.
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They are decumbent, not prostrate, so that the young branch tips point upward.
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Description: An erect or prostrate decumbent fleshy herb with spreading branches.
Chapter 7
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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
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Stems are erect or decumbent below or ascending from a creeping base, rooting at the nodes, smooth, glabrous and much branched, varying in height, from 1 to 2 feet; branches are short, slender and sometimes even capillary, with _nodes_ bearded or not in branches ending in solitary spikes, and completely glabrous when they end in binate spikes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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As one might expect, the position of greatest ease is the decumbent.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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P. myriophylla is a woody subshrub that forms patches of prostrate or decumbent stems often rooting at the nodes.
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From this hypothesis he reasons that atmospheric and oceanic masses are moved along with the decumbent nucleus with a velocity decreasing from the equator to the poles; and if the least retardation operates on the atmospheric and oceanic waters, a counter-current will be formed, flowing with the greatest rapidity where the retardation is greatest.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
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Description: An erect, decumbent or prostrate herb usually branched from the base and often less than 40 cm high.
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They grow upward from the basal branehes and only become decumbent after they have grown a few centimeters.
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