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accipients

accipients is the plural of accipient.

Meaning of accipient

Noun

accipient (plural accipients)

  1. (Late, Modern, obsolete) Someone who, or something which, accepts (willingly receives).
    • Instances sometimes occur of Species, or Varieties, gaining partial possession of the bodies of one another[…]Such instances, however, are very rare, and probably never take place between Varieties belong to the same Primary Species: for although it is an occurrence that evinces an intimate...1829, David Bishop, Causal Botany, page 145

Questions about accipients

What is accipients the plural of?
Accipients is the plural of accipient.

Words near accipients in the dictionary

  1. accinges
  2. accinging
  3. accipenser
  4. accipensers
  5. accipient
  6. accipients
  7. accipitaries
  8. accipitary
  9. accipiter
  10. accipiters
  11. accipitral

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