re‧cum‧bent/rɪˈkʌmbənt/ adjective formal [date : 1700-1800; Language : Latin; Origin : present participle of recumbere 'to lie down'] lying down on your back or side
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And there was Iris Sunderby's recumbent body sprawled in the back. ▪ He could not, for he was lying recumbent and unconscious on the carefully tended garden. ▪ He searched the recumbent form of his captive roughly and, straightening, tossed a slim package to Alexei. ▪ Midwestern tourists stopped to consider the recumbent women. ▪ One must have served as a recumbent tombstone, since it has a slot at one end to hold a vertical cross. ▪ She attacks, but never lets herself be drawn too far away from the recumbent, moaning body of her mistress. ▪ To his horror, he discerned a recumbent shape at the side of the line.