secund

American  

[see-kuhnd, sek-uhnd] / ˈsi kʌnd, ˈsɛk ʌnd /

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

1. arranged on one side only; unilateral.

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secund British  

/ sɪˈkʌnd /

adjective

1. botany having or designating parts arranged on or turned to one side of the axis

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Other Word Forms

• secundly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of secund

First recorded in 1770–80, secund is from the Latin word secundus following. See second ¹

Example Sentences

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secund

The pairs of cells on the pinnae are all secund, and in contact with each other at their bases, though widely divergent above.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by John MacGillivray

The spikelets are plano-convex, orbicular to oblong, obtuse, secund, 2-ranked on the flattened or triquetrous rachis of the spike-like branches of a raceme, one-flowered and falling off entire from the very short or obscure pedicels.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

The spikelets are secund, biseriate, shining, pale brown, 1/2 inch long, up to 30-flowered.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

Rays mostly short, white or pale bluish-purple.—Var. thyrsoídeus, Gray, with ovate-oblong to lanceolate leaves, the branches ascending and often short, and the thyrsoid or spicate-glomerate heads less secund.

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 Asa Gray

The secund is lyik unto this, Love thy nychtbour as thy selve.

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing