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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.

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

  • noun botany The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.
  • noun The afterbirth, or placenta and membranes.

Etymologies

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Compare French secondine.

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