secondine

English

Noun

secondine (plural secondines)

1. (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.