Word: Accumbent
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
late 17th century (in sense ‘lying against or upon something’): from Latin accumbent- ‘reclining’, from the verb accumbere, from ad- ‘to’ + a verb related to cubare ‘to lie’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
əˈkʌmb(ə)nt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
(of a cotyledon) lying edgeways against the folded radicle in the seed.
Short Definition:lying edgeways against radicle in seed
Definition:
(of a person) lying down or reclining.
Short Definition:lying down or reclining
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