Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having all parts or structures arranged on one side of an axis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • l. An obsolete form of second.
  • In botany and zoöl., arranged on one side only; unifarious; unilateral, as the flowers of the lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis), the false wintergreen (Pyrola secunda), etc.: as, secund processes of the antennæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin secundus, following; see sekw- in Indo-European roots.]

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Latin secundus following the course or current of wind of water. See second (adjective).

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  • Firms can also secund young associates to public sector agencies (e.g., the county prosecutor's office), where they can be paid by the firm but get far more hands-on experience than they would as twenty-first person on a multidistrict litigation team ...

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