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Accumbent   Listen
noun
Accumbent  n.  One who reclines at table.


adjective
Accumbent  adj.  
1.
Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. "The Roman... accumbent posture in eating."
2.
(Bot.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf. "Accumbent cotyledons have their edges placed against the caulicle."





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"Accumbent" Quotes from Famous Books



... horizontal &c. adj.; lay down, lay out; level, flatten; prostrate, knock down, floor, fell. Adj. horizontal, level, even, plane; flat &c. 251; flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green; alluvial; calm, calm as a mill pond; smooth, smooth as glass. recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent[obs3]; lying &c. v.; prone, supine, couchant, jacent[obs3], prostrate, recubant[obs3]. Adv. horizontally &c. adj.; on one's back, on all fours, on ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


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