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).]

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  "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.

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