Prostrate vs Postical - What's the difference?
prostrate | postical |
Lying flat, facedown.
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* 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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(botany) Oriented towards the base.
(botany) Of or pertaining to the surface of a prostrate thallus that is oriented towards the substrate.
In botany|lang=en terms the difference between prostrate and postical
is that prostrate is (botany) trailing on the ground; procumbent while postical is (botany) of or pertaining to the surface of a prostrate thallus that is oriented towards the substrate.As adjectives the difference between prostrate and postical
is that prostrate is lying flat, facedown while postical is (botany) oriented towards the base.As a verb prostrate
is (senseid)(often reflexive) to lie flat or facedown.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.