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
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

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