Accumbent
reclining; recumbent:
accumbent posture.
Botany. lying against something.
Historical Examples
The cotyledons are accumbent when they lie with their edges against the radicle, 128.
The Elements of Botany Asa Gray
accumbent, ak-kumb′ent, adj. lying down or reclining on a couch.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
The radicle r is folded on the edges of the cotyledons c which are accumbent.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 Various
Seed of Bitter Cress, Barbarea, cut across to show the accumbent cotyledons.
The Elements of Botany Asa Gray
adjective
(botany) (of plant parts and plants) lying against some other part or thing
a rare word for recumbent
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