decumbent - adj., lying down, reclining.
There seems to be a distinction being made between this and recumbent, but exactly what eludes me. Perhaps that of being prone and on one's back? Either way, from Latin, from de- + cumbere, to lie.
---L.
There seems to be a distinction being made between this and recumbent, but exactly what eludes me. Perhaps that of being prone and on one's back? Either way, from Latin, from de- + cumbere, to lie.
---L.