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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
procumbent /prə(ʊ)ˈkʌmb(ə)nt/

▶adjective Botany (of a plant or stem) growing along the ground without throwing out roots.

– origin C17: from L. procumbent-, procumbere ‘fall forwards’, from pro- ‘forwards, down’ + a verb rel. to cubare ‘to lie’.

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