Prostrate vs Dichondra - What's the difference?
prostrate | dichondra |
Lying flat, facedown.
* Milton
* 1945 , :
Emotionally devastated.
Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
(botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
(senseid)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.
To throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively).
To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.
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Any of the genus of prostrate perennial herbaceous plants with creeping stems.
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*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 16, author=Anne Raver, title=A Connecticut Hillside of Feisty Beauties, work=New York Times
, passage=“That’s silver ponyfoot,” she said, using the apt common name for a kind of dichondra . }}
As an adjective prostrate
is lying flat, facedown.As a verb prostrate
is (to lie flat or facedown)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.As a noun dichondra is
any of the genus genus: Dichondra of prostrate perennial herbaceous plants with creeping stems.prostrate
English
Adjective
(-)- Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
- Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
- I told him you was prostrate with grief.'' — Mammy to Scarlett, ''Gone With the Wind .
- He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
Antonyms
* supineVerb
(prostrat)Usage notes
* Prostrate and (prostate) are often confused, in spelling if not in meaning.See also
* kowtow ----dichondra
Noun
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