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Definition of Accumbent
1. Adjective. Lying down; in a position of comfort or rest.
Definition of Accumbent
1. a. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
2. n. One who reclines at table.
Definition of Accumbent
1. Adjective. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: botany) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Accumbent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Accumbent
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Accumbent
Literary usage of Accumbent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"Cotyledons flattened accumbent. 14. THLASPI. Pouch oval or obovate notched; valves
boat- shaped winged at the back; ovules 4 or more in each cell, rarely 2. ..."
2. Engelsk-dansk-norsk ordbog by John Brynildsen, Johannes Magnussen, Otto Jespersen (1902)
"... here Billy turned his time to such good - that... ; 1 shall not trouble the
reader n'ith an - [en Gengivelse, et Referat) of the speech. accumbent ..."
3. Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged both according by William Jackson Hooker (1821)
"Cotyledons accumbent. Seeds in one row. Cal. erect. ... Cotyledons accumbent.
Cal. closed ; opposite leaflets saccate at the base. ..."
4. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1890)
"Seeds in 2 rows in each cell, rounded, broadly winged ; cotyledons accumbent ;
radicle short. — A low annual, with once or twice pinnatifid leaves and ..."
5. Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1829)
"Cotyledons accumbent. 39. 63—(«fall cress.) 8. BARBAREA. Calyx erect, equal at
the base : glands between the bases с the short stamens and the germ ..."
6. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"Lepidium virginicum also belongs to the group with accumbent cotyledons. It differs
markedly from the rest of its congeners, all of which have incumbent ..."
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