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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--secund secund (SEE-kuhnd, SEK-uhnd) adjective Arranged on (or turned towards) only one side of an axis. [From Latin secundus (following), from sequi (to follow).] Example: Wild Foxglove The flowers are arranged in a very loose spiral or are sometimes secund." James Alexander Fowler; Wild Orchids Of South Carolina; University of South Carolina Press; 2005. This week's theme: words that appear to be misspellings. X-Bonus To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)

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