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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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