humifuse
English
Etymology
From Latin humus (“ground”) + fusus, past participle of fundere (“to spread”).
Adjective
humifuse (comparative more humifuse, superlative most humifuse)
- (botany) Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent[1]
References
- 1857, Asa Gray, First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology
- humifuse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913