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)
