PROCUM'BENT, adjective [Latin procumbens, procumbo; pro and cubo, to lie down.] Lying down or on the face; prone. 1. In botany, trailing; prostrate; unable to support itself, and therefore lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; as a procumbent stem.
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