accumbent

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table.
    — What a pennance must be done by every accumbent, in sitting out the passage through all these dishes; what a task the stomach must be put to in the concoction of so many mixtures.
形容词 adj.
  1. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
    — Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied.
  2. Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf
    — 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.

词形变化

more accumbent comparative most accumbent superlative accumbents plural

词汇关系

衍生词
accumbently
相关词
accumb accumbency accubation recumbent

词源

词源 1
From Latin accumbō (“recline”), from ad- (“to”) + *cumbō (“recline”).
词源 2
From Latin accumbō (“recline”), from ad- (“to”) + *cumbō (“recline”).
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