accumbent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ac=cum=bent

CIDE DICTIONARY

accumbent, a. 

•  Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.  [1913 Webster]

  "The Roman . . . accumbent posture in eating."  [1913 Webster]
•  Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]

  "Accumbent cotyledons have their edges placed against the caulicle."  [1913 Webster]

accumbent, n. 

 One who reclines at table.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

accumbent

Horizontality

N horizontality, flatness, level, plane, stratum, dead level, dead flat, level plane, recumbency, lying down, reclination, decumbence, decumbency, discumbency, proneness, accubation, supination, resupination, prostration, azimuth, plain, floor, platform, bowling green, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, billiard table, terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre, table land, plateau, ledge, butte, mesa (plain), level, spirit level, horizontal, level, even, plane, flat, flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green, alluvial, calm, calm as a mill pond, smooth, smooth as glass, recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent, lying, prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant, horizontally, on one's back, on all fours, on its beam ends.