procumbent

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Ratany, rat′a-ni, n. a perennial procumbent shrub, yielding the medicinal ratany root.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

In reality it is of procumbent habit, with divergent stems like the ordinary Cupid, a fact which can easily be observed by anyone who will watch them grow without the artificial aid of prepared supports.

From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall

The stem is woody, procumbent, naked, thread-shaped, variously divided.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Linn?, Carl von

Capsule 3-celled, two of the cells 2-seeded, the other 1-seeded or abortive.—Stems branching, often procumbent and rooting at the joints.

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

Skull: Larger in every measurement taken; premaxillae extended farther posteriorly to nasals; extension of supraoccipital posterior to lambdoidal suture markedly less; tympanic bullae actually as well as relatively smaller; upper incisors longer and more procumbent.

From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.