procumbent

Meaning of procumbent

adjective
  1. (of a plant or stem) growing along the ground without throwing out roots.
    some forms have long procumbent branches

mid 17th century: from Latin procumbent- ‘falling forwards’, from the verb procumbere, from pro- ‘forwards, down’ + a verb related to cubare ‘to lie’.

Information about procumbent

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of procumbent

procum-bent

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • procumbent is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with procumbent

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