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recumbent - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

recumbent (comparative more recumbent, superlative most recumbent)

  • Lying down.
    • ✤ Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans.1
  • Inactive; idle.

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recumbent (plural recumbents)

  • A bicycle or tricycle that places the rider in a reclined posture.
    • ✤ Synonym: recumbent bicycle
  • (archaeology) A large rectangular monolith lying on its side, typically flanked by two large upright stones, the flankers; found in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.

Etymology

From Latin present participle recumbēns, from recumbō (“to recline”).

Pronunciation

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Footnotes

  1. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 11”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC: ↩

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