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

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

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 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

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 Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

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