Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The afterbirth; what remains in the womb to be extruded after the birth of the fetus, being the fetal envelops, placenta, and part of the navel-string: generally used in the plural.
- noun In botany, the second (or inner) coat or integument of an ovule, lying within the primine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.
- noun The afterbirth, or placenta and membranes; -- generally used in the plural.
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- noun botany The second
coat , orintegument , of anovule , lying within theprimine . - noun The
afterbirth , orplacenta andmembranes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Within the primine lies the bony crustaceous secundine, which is quite loose, and seems as if it were independent of the primine.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The whole is called secundine in English, and in French "arriere faix."
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Within the primine lies the bony crustaceous secundine, which is quite loose, and seems as if it were independent of the primine.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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What was generally made use of consisted of vervain, tenia, and hippomanes; or a small portion of the secundine of a mare that had just foaled, together with a little bird called wagtail; in Latin motacilla.
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Eventually the end of the thin brittle primine breaks like an eggshell and the secundine falls out.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The ovules are the rudimentary seeds, situated in a case at the base of the pistils, each consisting of a central portion, called the nucleus, which is surrounded by two coats, the inner called the secundine, the outer the primine.
The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. D. A. Compton 1846
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Eventually the end of the thin brittle primine breaks like an eggshell and the secundine falls out.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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