accumbent

American  

[uh-kuhm-buhnt] / əˈkʌm bənt /

adjective

1. reclining; recumbent.

   accumbent posture.

2. Botany. lying against something.

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accumbent British  

/ əˈkʌmbənt /

adjective

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

2. a rare word for recumbent

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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

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

Seeds in one row in each cell, orbicular or nearly so, more or less wing-margined; cotyledons strictly accumbent.

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 Gray, Asa

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 Gray, Asa

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 Gray, Asa

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.

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 Gray, Asa