Accumbent

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  • adjective. Lying down; reclining.
  • adjective. Lying or leaning against something.
  • The 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who reclines at table.
  • adjective. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
  • adjective. Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
  • adjective. Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
  • Equivalent
    unerect