accumbent
Americanadjective
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reclining; recumbent.
accumbent posture.
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Botany. lying against something.
adjective
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botany (of plant parts and plants) lying against some other part or thing
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a rare word for recumbent
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of accumbent
1650–60; < Latin accumbent- (stem of accumbēns, present participle of accumbere ), equivalent to ac- ac- + cumb- (nasalized variant of cub- lie, recline; see covey) + -ent- -ent
Example Sentences
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Cotyledons accumbent or a little oblique.—Leaves seldom divided.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Such mild-eyed, accumbent, sharp-ribbed horses as now infest the curb—mere whittlings from a larger age—hang their heads at their degeneracy.
From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
Cotyledons accumbent, flattened, equal or nearly so, petiolate.—Mostly glabrous perennials, leafy-stemmed, growing along watercourses and in wet places.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Cotyledons accumbent and seed minutely margined; pod marginless or obscurely margined at the top; petals present, except in some of the later flowers.—June–Sept.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Seeds flat or flattish, orbicular or oval; cotyledons accumbent or nearly so.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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