Recumbent Definition

rĭ-kŭmbənt
adjective
Lying down; reclining; leaning.
Webster's New World
Resting; idle.
Webster's New World
Resting on the surface from which it arises. Used of an organ or other structure.
American Heritage Medicine
Designating a part that leans or lies upon some other part or surface.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
A recumbent bicycle.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Recumbent

Noun

Singular:
recumbent
Plural:
recumbents

Origin of Recumbent

  • Latin recumbēns recumbent- present participle of recumbere to lie down re- re- cumbere to lie

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin present participle recumbens, from verb recumbere

    From Wiktionary

Recumbent Sentence Examples

  • The horns are black, slightly twisted and very short, flat at the base, pointed at the tips, and recumbent on the head.

  • The splendid recumbent effigies in bronze, of Italian workmanship, rest upon a tomb of black marble, and the whole is enclosed in a magnificent shrine of wrought brass.

  • They are not recumbent, and the hair falling from the head is curled, not straight, as in the true Egyptian sphinx.

  • On the 30th of January 1907 the body was removed with great ceremony from Kensal Green and reburied in the crypt of the new cathedral, where it lies beneath a Gothic altar tomb, with a recumbent effigy of the archbishop in full pontificals.

  • Exercise cycles, exercise cycles, Exercise bikes or recumbent bikes are good for the large muscle... workout is done on an exercise bike.

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Words Starting With

RREREC

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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