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Of or pertaining to prefecundation.

Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. "His rubicund face." Longfellow.

The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness. To parade your rubicundity and gray hairs. Walpole.

Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk. Gray.

To make prosperous. [R.]

Prosperity. [R.]

The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.

n; a property or possession so inherited. The kingdom of Naples . . . was constituted a secundo-geniture of Spain. Bancroft.

Fertilization of two ova, at the same menstruation, by two different acts of coition.

Superabundant fecundity or multiplication of the species.

Having thirty-two leaves to a sheet; as, a trigesimo-secundo form, book, leaf, size, etc.

Rashful; modest. [Obs.]

Verecund. [Obs.] "Verecundious generosity." Sir H. Wotton.

The quality or state of being verecund; modesty. [Obs.]

To, in, or on the field. "We drove afield." Milton. How jocund did they drive their team afield! Gray.

Characterized by sterility; infecund.

Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] South.

A process of fecundation in which the pollen tube penetrates to the embryosac through the tissue of the chalaza, instead of entering through the micropyle. It was originally discovered by Treub in Casuarina, and has since been found to occur regularly in the families Betulaceæ and Juglandaceæ. Partial chalazogamy is fo…

ight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate. They, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear. Milton.

See Cundurango.