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Definition: Decumbent |
DecumbentAdjective1. Lying down; in a position of comfort or rest. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Decumbent \De*cum"bent\, adjective. [Latin expression decumbens, -entis, present participle of decumbere; de- cumbere (only in comp.), cubare to lie down.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Science | Resting on a substratum, with the end turned up. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DecumbentSynonyms: accumbent (adj), reclining (adj), recumbent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Horizontality | Recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent; lying; Verb: prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Decumbent |
| English words defined with "decumbent": alfilaria, alfileria ♦ cheese, cheeseflower, clocks, common pitcher plant ♦ Decumbently ♦ Erodium cicutarium ♦ false heather, filaree, filaria ♦ Gazania rigens, golden heather ♦ heal all, Hermannia verticillata, high mallow, honey bell, honeybells, Hudsonia ericoides, huntsman's cup, huntsman's cups, Hydrorhiza ♦ Mahernia verticillata, Malva sylvestris ♦ pin clover, pin grass, Prunella vulgaris, purple clover ♦ red clover, redstem storksbill ♦ Sarracenia purpurea, self-heal ♦ tall mallow, thyme-leaved speedwell, treasure flower, Trifolium pratense ♦ Veronica serpyllifolia. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "decumbent": Decubation. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "decumbent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | лежащ (incumbent, recumbent). (various references) | |
Czech | ležící tváří k zemi (prostrate). (various references) | |
Danish | tandbaelg (decumbent heath grass). (various references) | |
Dutch | tandjesgras (heath grass). (various references) | |
Finnish | hina (decumbent heath grass, decumbent heath-grass). (various references) | |
French | danthonie décombante (decumbent heath-grass), sieglingie décombante (decumbent heath grass). (various references) | |
German | niederliegender Dreizahn (decumbent heath grass), nieder liegender Dreizahn (decumbent heath-grass). (various references) | |
Greek | κατακείμενοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lekonyuló. (various references) | |
Italian | sieglingia decumbens (decumbent heath grass), gramigna logliarella (decumbent heath-grass). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecumbentday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | deitado (lying, lying-down, recumbent), decumbente, prostrado (procumbent, prostrate). (various references) | |
Romanian | târâtor (crawling, creeping, creepy, cringing, grovelling, prostrate, reptile), culcat (abed, recumbent). (various references) | |
Russian | лежащий (incumbent, lying, recumbent, superincumbent, superjacent). (various references) | |
Spanish | decumbente. (various references) | |
Swedish | krypande (crawl, creep, creeping, creepy, cringing, grovelling, obsequious, procumbent, servile, sycophantic). (various references) | |
Turkish | yatık (aslope, leaning, tilting), eğilmiş (lop-sided, skewed, sprung). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лежачий (lying, reclined, recumbent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Danthonia decumbens DC./Lam., Sieglingia decumbens. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Decumbent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decrumbent, Edgcumbe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "decumbent" (pronounced 'De*cum"bent'): Bowbent, Cumbent, lambent, Procumbent, recumbent, Succumbent, superincumbent. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-m-n-t-u" | |
-2 letters: bedunce. | |
-3 letters: bunted, butene, cement, centum, decent, dement, numbed, unmeet. | |
-4 letters: bundt, centu, cubed, debut, deuce, dunce, educe, educt, embed, emend, endue, etude, meted, muted, neume, tubed, tuned, undee, unmet. | |
-5 letters: bedu, been, beet, bend, bene, bent, bund, bunt, bute, cede, cent, cete, cube, cued, cute, debt, deem, deet, deme, dene, dent, duce, duct. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-e-m-n-t-u" | |
+2 letters: debouchment. | |
+3 letters: debouchments, documentable. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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