the act, fact or process of coming or going down; a descent.

a root that grows downwards from the branches (as of a banyan tree); a pendent root.

a creeper climbing up to the top of a tree.

(mus.) a coming down on a musical scale; descending order of a musical mode.

tending to come or go downward; descending.

(astrol.) the period of decline; decadence; a time foreboding of an inauspicious events.

(bot.) a plant with stem lying flat but with tip rising.