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procumbent

ADJECTIVE
  1. having stems that trail along the ground without putting down roots

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  • The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, one large flower being surrounded by a whorl of smaller ones; they are of a rich purplish-blue inside the corolla, which is rotate; the segments (mitre-shaped) and the spaces between are prettily furnished with a feathery fringe; the wide tube is also finely striped inside; the calyx is tubular, having long awl-shaped segments; the stems are procumbent, firm (almost woody), short jointed, and thickest near the top. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
  • Finally, this work represents part of a long-term research effort in which mechanical architectures are being investigated in terms of the evolution of architectures of trees, shrubs, lianas and procumbent growth forms.
  • Omriino convenit, non vero notatfo - lia craf&ulcula eC caules procumbentes, nec pctala integca» Collectio epistolarvm quas ad viros illustres et clarissimos scriptsit Carolus a Linné. Accedunt opuscula pro et contra virum immortalem scripta, extra sueciam rarissima
  • The unusual long-armed Sapeornis, also from the Jiufutang Formation, had a rather short, Caudipteryx-like skull, and short, conical, unserrated, procumbent teeth projected from its premaxillae (Zhou & Zhang 2003). The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view
  • The stem of the 2nd. is procumbent abo [u] t the size of the former, jointed and unbranched. it's leaves are cauline, compound and oppositely pinnate; the rib from 14 to 16 inches long celindric and smooth. the leafets 2 1/2 inches long and 1 inch wide. greatest width 1/2 inch from their base, to which they are regularly rounded, and from the same point tapering to an accute apex, Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
  • In Caudipteryx, four procumbent teeth are present in each premaxilla, but the rest of the skull is edentulous. Archive 2006-07-01
  • The somewhat similar Omnivoropteryx, also from the Jiufutang Formation, was also short-skulled, and also has just a few procumbent teeth restricted to the premaxillae (Czerkas & Ji 2002). Archive 2006-07-01
  • One example is procumbent rosemary, used extensively as a ground cover and sheared several times a year.
  • On the top of a hill, about four miles from the Fort, I had a fine view of a beautiful valley, caused by a rivulet, being a branch of Knife River, the declivities of which abound in a new species of eleagnus, intermixed with a singular procumbent species of cedar (juniperus.) Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811
  • One example is procumbent rosemary, used extensively as a ground cover and sheared several times a year.
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