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词汇 accumbent
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Definition of accumbent in English:

accumbent

adjective əˈkʌmb(ə)ntəˈkəmbənt
Botany
  • (of a cotyledon) lying edgeways against the folded radicle in the seed.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, it has broadly expanded and sometimes minutely denticulate bases of the median staminal filaments, distinctly 2-lobed stigmas, accumbent cotyledons, white flowers with purplish petal claws, and strongly divided leaves.
    • Although the cotyledons were correctly illustrated as incumbent, they were described as accumbent.
    • However, Chrysobraya differs from Lepidostemon in having cotyledons incumbent instead of accumbent and staminal filaments toothless and wingless instead of winged and toothed.
    • Light blue to chartreuse, adaxially (upper leaf surface) glabrous or scarcely, with appressed hairs, abaxially (lower leaf surface) with densely accumbent, minimally spiky, silky hairs.
    • Cotyledon arrangement (for examples see full document) is incumbent and sometimes oblique or accumbent and sometimes oblique.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Latin accumbent- 'reclining', from accumbere, from ad- 'to' + a verb related to cubare 'to lie'.

Definition of accumbent in US English:

accumbent

adjectiveəˈkəmbəntəˈkəmbənt
Botany
  • (of a cotyledon) lying edgewise against the folded radicle in the seed.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, it has broadly expanded and sometimes minutely denticulate bases of the median staminal filaments, distinctly 2-lobed stigmas, accumbent cotyledons, white flowers with purplish petal claws, and strongly divided leaves.
    • Cotyledon arrangement (for examples see full document) is incumbent and sometimes oblique or accumbent and sometimes oblique.
    • However, Chrysobraya differs from Lepidostemon in having cotyledons incumbent instead of accumbent and staminal filaments toothless and wingless instead of winged and toothed.
    • Although the cotyledons were correctly illustrated as incumbent, they were described as accumbent.
    • Light blue to chartreuse, adaxially (upper leaf surface) glabrous or scarcely, with appressed hairs, abaxially (lower leaf surface) with densely accumbent, minimally spiky, silky hairs.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Latin accumbent- ‘reclining’, from accumbere, from ad- ‘to’ + a verb related to cubare ‘to lie’.

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