Sloping downward; declining or descending gradually.
From Latin declivis, meaning 'sloping downward,' with the -ent adjective suffix. This is a rare or archaic variant of declivate.
You're unlikely to hear this word in modern conversation—it's been almost completely replaced by 'sloping,' 'declining,' or 'descending'—but it survives in scientific Latin descriptions of plant structures.
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