secund

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The spikelets are solitary, usually 2-flowered (rarely 1-flowered), secund, closely imbricating, sessile with a short, pedicelled, reduced upper spikelet, and deciduous with the joint.

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  1. adjective Biology Arranged on or turned to one side of an axis.

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  • You nawt secund guys jus sit him in corner quiet an splain to him …. —  סטארטר
  • The spikelets are solitary, usually 2-flowered (rarely 1-flowered), secund, closely imbricating, sessile with a short, pedicelled, reduced upper spikelet, and deciduous with the joint. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The spikelets are sessile, 3 to 12 flowered, 2 to 3-seriate, secund, laterally compressed and forming digitate whorled or capitate spikes, not joined at the base; rachilla continuous between the flowering glumes. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Spikelets in a long terminal spike Spikelets distichously spreading secund, keels of palea winged 8. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • A branch with spikelets; 2. flowering glumes with their palea; 3 and 4. empty glumes; 5 and 6. flowering glume and its palea The spikelets are secund, biseriate, shining, pale brown, 1/2 inch long, up to 30-flowered. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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  1. Latin secundus, following; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin secundus, following: see second.
 

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/ˈsikənd/
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