Usually means: Hanging down; drooping; nodding downwards.
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  1. cernuous: Merriam-Webster
  2. cernuous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. cernuous: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cernuous: Vocabulary.com
  5. cernuous: Wordnik
  6. cernuous: Wiktionary
  7. cernuous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cernuous: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Cernuous, cernuous: Dictionary.com
  10. Cernuous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. cernuous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. cernuous: Rhymezone
  13. Cernuous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. cernuous: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cernuous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. cernuous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. cernuous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cernuous: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Cernuous: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cernuous)

▸ adjective:  (botany) Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; said of a bud, flower, or fruit, or the capsule of a moss.

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nodding, drooping, pendulous, unerect, droopy, pendulent, deflexed, pendent, mossful, undated, more...

Types:
winding, meandering, twisting, turning, coiling, curving, curling, serpentine, more...

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Similar:
nodding, drooping, pendulous, unerect, droopy, pendulent, deflexed, pendent, mossful, undated, more...

Types:
winding, meandering, twisting, turning, coiling, curving, curling, serpentine, more...



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