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Axillary   Listen
adjective
Axillary  adj.  
1.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.
2.
(Bot.) Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. "Axillary buds."





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"Axillary" Quotes from Famous Books



... prepared from seeds of this bean. The plant generally known as Soja hispida is by modern botanists referred to Glycine soja. It is an erect, hairy, herbaceous plant. The leaves are three-parted and the papilionaceous flowers are born in axillary racemes. It is too tender for outdoor cultivation in this country, but, has been recommended for extended growth in our colonies as a commercial plant. The plants are readily used from seed.—J.R.F., ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various
... Jasminum Mitchellii as hardly a variety of J. lineare, the character of this supposed species depending on its smooth leaves, and its axillary nearly sessile corymbi or fasciculi, which are much shorter than their subtending leaves; but even in the specimen contained in the collection presented to the British Museum by Sir Thomas Mitchell, the young branches, as well as the pedunculus and pedicelli, are covered with similar pubesceuce, ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt


Words linked to "Axillary" :   axilla, general anatomy, anatomy, phytology, axillary cavity, axil


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