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

Culms erect or decumbent, 2° high; spikes 6–12, erect or ascending, 1–2´ long, forming a compound spike 3–6´ long; spikelets glabrous, very shortly pedicelled, oblong-lanceolate, nearly 2´´ long.—S.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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

The fertile flocci were decumbent, probably from the weight of the spores, and the tufts were a little elevated above the surface of the matrix.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)