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What is a secundine?

What is a secundine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.
  2. (plural) The afterbirth, or placenta and membranes.
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Within the primine lies the bony crustaceous secundine, which is quite loose, and seems as if it were independent of the primine.
Eventually the end of the thin brittle primine breaks like an eggshell and the secundine falls out.
The third thing which makes up the secundine in the alantois, of which there is a great dispute amongst anatomists.

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