adjective

• 1Botany
  (of a cotyledon) lying edgewise against the folded radicle in the seed.

  ‘Although the cotyledons were correctly illustrated as incumbent, they were described as accumbent.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘However, Chrysobraya differs from Lepidostemon in having cotyledons incumbent instead of accumbent and staminal filaments toothless and wingless instead of winged and toothed.’
  • ‘Cotyledon arrangement (for examples see full document) is incumbent and sometimes oblique or accumbent and sometimes oblique.’
  • ‘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.’
  • ‘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.’
• 2(of a person) lying down or reclining.