accipient/əkˈsɪpiənt/EtymologyLearned borrowing from Latin accipiēns (“receiving”, stem: accipient-), the present active participle of accipiō (“to receive”), whence accept.accipient means someone who, or something which, accepts (willingly receives). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounSomeone 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 affinity between the plant that confers its distinctions, and that which is the accipient, yet the existence”