accumbent
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From Latin accumbō (“recline”), from ad (“to”) + cumbō (“recline”)
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accumbent (comparative more accumbent, superlative most accumbent)
- Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
- 1998, Anne Markham Schulz, Giammaria Mosca called Padovano: a Renaissance sculptor in Italy and Poland[1], ISBN 9780271016740, page 136:
- Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied.
- 1998, Anne Markham Schulz, Giammaria Mosca called Padovano: a Renaissance sculptor in Italy and Poland[1], ISBN 9780271016740, page 136:
- (botany) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf
- 1840, William Baxter, British phænogamous botany[2], volume 5:
- Distinguished from other genera, with accumbent cotyledons, in the same class and order, by the entire, nearly equal petals; and the dehiscent, nearly entirely pouch, of 2, 1- or many-seeded cells, a broad dissepiment (septum), and nearly flat valves.
- 1840, William Baxter, British phænogamous botany[2], volume 5:
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accumbent
- third-person plural future active indicative of accumbō
