accumbent

Definition

Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.

Etymology

From Latin accumbō (“recline”), from ad- (“to”) + *cumbō (“recline”).

Example Sentences

• "Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied."
• "Distinguished from other genera, with accumbent cotyledons, in the same class and order, by the entire, nearly equal petals; and the dehiscent, nearly entirely pouch, of 2, 1- or many-seeded cells, a broad dissepiment (septum), and nearly flat valves."

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