accumbent

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Seeds flat or flattish, orbicular or oval; cotyledons accumbent or nearly so.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The radicle r is folded on the edges of the cotyledons c which are accumbent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

Seed of Bitter Cress, Barbarea, cut across to show the accumbent cotyledons.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Such mild-eyed, accumbent, sharp-ribbed horses as now infest the curb—mere whittlings from a larger age—hang their heads at their degeneracy.

From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

The cotyledons are accumbent when they lie with their edges against the radicle, 128.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa