recumbent
adjective/rɪˈkʌmbənt/
/rɪˈkʌmbənt/
[usually before noun] (formal)- (of a person’s body or position) lying down
- her recumbent body
- in a recumbent posture
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin recumbent- ‘reclining’, from the verb recumbere, from re- ‘back’ + a verb related to cubare ‘to lie’.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRecumbent is used with these nouns:
See recumbent in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary- bike
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