I got a new (old) dictionary

se·rot·i·nous

adj. Botany

Late in developing or blooming.

[Latin s r tinus, coming late, from sr, at a late hour, from srus, late.]

leading to Serotinal defined in Webster's 1981 as "of or relating to the latter and usually drier part of summer"


Meiosis

Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek (meioō, "I lessen") μείων & (meiōn, "less")

1. rhetoric (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhetoric) a figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it is.