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accumbent
Definition of accumbent
1 : leaning or reclining especially at meals the Roman accumbent posture in eating
2 botany : lying against something —used chiefly of cotyledons having their edges folded against the hypocotyl (as in many crucifers) — compare conduplicate incumbent
3 zoology : closely applied to a surface (as of the wing scales of certain insects)
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Origin and Etymology of accumbent
Latin accumbent-, accumbens, present participle of accumbere to lie down, recline at table, from ad- + -cumbere to lie down (akin to cubare to lie down)
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