decumbent
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Most arrived more or less by acceptable means, but the suburban affliction defined as "a grass with creeping or decumbent stems which root freely at the nodes" sneaked in.
From Time Magazine Archive
The root of the hoary, decumbent, and less elegant, but larger-flowered Hedysarum mackenzii is poisonous, and nearly killed an old Indian woman at Fort Simpson, who had mistaken it for that of the preceding species.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
This is a perennial grass, with fairly stout, erect or somewhat decumbent, simple or branched, glabrous, leafy stems, 1 to 4 feet high.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The stems are many from the root, 16 to 18 inches long, ascending or decumbent and prostrate, leafy, glabrous, rooting freely at the lower nodes, especially when procumbent.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Palpi long, slightly decumbent; third joint a little shorter than the second, with which it forms an obtuse angle.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
