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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin secundinae (“afterbirth”), from Latin secundae (“afterbirth”), shortened from secundae membranae "the second membranes", from secundus (“following, coming next”).
Pronunciation
Noun
secundina f (plural secundines)
- (botany) the second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine
- (anatomy, in the plural) afterbirth
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