Found 3 hits - Term: accumbent, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
accumbent \accum"bent\ -bent, a.
1. leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
1913 webster
the roman . . . accumbent posture in eating.
--arbuthnot.
1913 webster
2. bot. lying against anything, as one part of a leaf
against another leaf. --gray.
1913 webster
accumbent cotyledons have their edges placed against
the caulicle. --eaton.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
accumbent \accum"bent\, n.
one who reclines at table.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
accumbent
adj : lying down; in a position of comfort or rest syn: decumbent,
recumbent, reclining
see also:
decumbent recumbent reclining
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