secund
Americanadjective
adjective
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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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Spikelets distichously spreading, secund, keels of palea winged 8.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The secund day we syng of Stevene, That stoned and steyyd up even To God that he saw stond in hevyn, And crounned was for hys prouesse.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.
Spikelets sessile and jointed on the very short densely crowded branchlets of a tall, narrow raceme like panicle, deciduous, acute, much compressed, imbricate and secund 7.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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 Rangachari, K.
Heads very small in slender spreading secund clusters forming a mostly short and broad panicle; leaves entire or nearly so.
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 Gray, Asa
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