secondine
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[edit]secondine (plural secondines)
- (botany) Alternative form of secundine (“second coat of an ovule”)
- 1835, John Lindley, A Key to Structural, Physiological, and Systematic Botany[1], Longman et al. (publishers), page 35:
- In the seed these membranes are called by various names, of which the most frequently used are spermoderm or testa for the primine; mesosperm, for the secondine; and endopleura for the other.