accumbent

[uh-kuhm-buhnt]

adjective

1. reclining; recumbent.

   accumbent posture.

2. Botany.,  lying against something.

accumbent

/ əˈkʌmbənt /

adjective

1. botany (of plant parts and plants) lying against some other part or thing

2. a rare word for recumbent

Other Word Forms

• accumbency noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of accumbent¹

1650–60; < Latin accumbent- (stem of accumbēns, present participle of accumbere ), equivalent to ac- ac- + cumb- (nasalized variant of cub- lie, recline; covey ) + -ent- -ent

Word History and Origins

Origin of accumbent¹

C18: from Latin accumbere to recline

Example Sentences

Seeds flat or flattish, orbicular or oval; cotyledons accumbent or nearly so.

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The radicle r is folded on the edges of the cotyledons c which are accumbent.

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Seed of Bitter Cress, Barbarea, cut across to show the accumbent cotyledons.

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Seeds in 2 rows in each cell, rounded, broadly winged; cotyledons accumbent; radicle short.—A low annual, with once or twice pinnatifid leaves and leafy-bracteate racemes of yellow flowers.

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Cotyledons accumbent, flattened, equal or nearly so, petiolate.—Mostly glabrous perennials, leafy-stemmed, growing along watercourses and in wet places.

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