adj. 1. Lying face down; prone. 2. Botany Trailing along the ground but not rooting: a procumbent vine. [Latin prōcumbēns, prōcumbent-, present participle of prōcumbere, to bend down : prō-, forward; see PRO-1 + -cumbere, to lie down.] |
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