recumbent
adjective
[ rɪˈkʌmb(ə)nt ]
• (especially of a person or effigy) lying down.
• "recumbent statues"
Similar:
lying,
flat,
horizontal,
stretched out,
sprawled,
spreadeagled,
reclining,
resting,
lounging,
prone,
prostrate,
supine,
lying down,
lying flat,
(flat) on one's back,
on one's stomach/front,
(flat) on one's face,
procumbent,
recumbent
noun
• a type of bicycle designed to be ridden lying almost flat on one's back.
Origin:
mid 17th century: from Latin recumbent- ‘reclining’, from the verb recumbere, from re- ‘back’ + a verb related to cubare ‘to lie’.
