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
- accumbency noun
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; covey ) + -ent- -ent
Example Sentences
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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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