A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

declivis,-e (adj.B): downhill, sloping downwards; steep; with a downward sloping surface; descending; “tending to move downwards, falling; (of stars) declining” (Glare); cf. devexus,-a,-um (part.A); opp. acclivis,-e (adj.B), q.v., uphill, sloping upwards, ascending; syn., cf. “devexus, praeruptus, abruptus, abscisus, proclivis, acclivis, propensus, praeceps, pronus” (Lewis & Short); cf. devexus,-a,-um (adj.A), sloping downwards; see clivus,- (s.m.II), hill, slope; see sloping;

- valde declivis, strongly descending, steep.

- aequaliter declivis, evenly [i.e. smoothly, uniformly] sloping downwards.

- collis ab summo aequaliter declivis ad flumen Sabim, the hill sloping regularly [i.e. evenly] downward to the river Sabis.

- pars leniter declivis est, a part that is gently descending.

- leviter declivi loco, in a slightly descending place.

- pars leniter declivis est, a part that is gently descending.

- loco declivi saxoso, at a steep rocky place.

- valde declivis, strongly descending, steeply descending.

- in declivi et praecipiti loco, in a steep and precipitous place.

- habitat in pratis pinquioribus cum Fest. elatiore, sed rarius obvenit, et magis locis montanis, quam declivibus crescit; it inhabits richer [i.e. more fertile] meadows with Festuca elatior, but it occurs more rarely, and it grows more in mountanous places than down-sloping places.

- nascitur in umbrosissimis udis (saepe in ipsa paene aqua) ad folia ramulosque putridos dejectos, rarius terrestris in semitis declivibus, it grows in the shadiest moist (places) (often almost in the very water) on leaves and fallen rotten branches, more rarely terrestrial on sloping footpaths.