Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lying down; reclining.
- adj. Botany Lying or leaning against something: accumbent cotyledons.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Leaning or reclining, in the manner of the ancients at their meals. See accubation.
- In botany, lying against: applied to the cotyledons of an embryo when their edges lie against or are opposed to the radicle.
- n. One who reclines, as at meals; one at table, whether reclining or sitting.
- In entomology, lying closely, as the scales on a butterfly's antenna.
Wiktionary
- adj. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
- adj. botany Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
- adj. (Bot.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.
- n. One who reclines at table.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
Etymologies
- From Latin accumbō ("recline"), from ad ("to") + cumbō ("recline") (Wiktionary)
- Latin accumbēns, accumbent-, present participle of accumbere, to recline at table : ad-, ad- + cumbere, to recline. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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reesetee If you stand up, are you excumbent? Apr 17, 2008
asativum Really, just how many words do we need for being prone that end in -cumbent? Apr 17, 2008