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axil - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun botany , the angle formed between the upper side of a leaf and the stem or branch to which it is attached; in cryptogams, the angle formed by the branching of a frond.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Bot.) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun botany The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch , leaf , or petiole , and the stem or branch from which it springs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin axilla .
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In the first place, a slit is made on each side and above and below a leaf which has a healthy bud in its axil , that is, just between the foot-stalk of the leaf and the branch on which it grows.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
Some lilies produce bulbils that grow along the stems at the leaf axil .
How To-Lily Bulblets « Fairegarden 2010
We've been down this road so many damn times the wagon wheel tracks are so deep the axil is dragging the ground.
New National Obama Ad: "Inspiring" 2009
Dad parking the orange van in the car park which was a bumpy lumpy field with me stating we'd probably get stuck I shall say no more about this other than when it came time to leave - guess who had to sit over the rear axil ?
Snell-Pym » Cranham Country Fayer 2009
There is still lots of white showing at the leaf blade axil where the flower stalk emerges, at first quite pale then darkening as it lengthens.
Muhly Watch Friday « Fairegarden 2009
We've been down this road so many damn times the wagon wheel tracks are so deep the axil is dragging the ground.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | New National Obama Ad: "Inspiring" 2009
McCain practices his evil eye for his first meeting with an axil of evil.
Beat 360° 9/29/08 2008
When TA breaks an axil on his SUV from a pothole, he'll be the first to complain.
A True Fable: Ownership Society Failure Hits Home, Park and Street Ellen Beth Gill 2007
When the tads hatch, they are transported to a water-filled bromeliad axil .
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis!?!? 2007
When the tads hatch, they are transported to a water-filled bromeliad axil .
Elephants 2007
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