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Axil

noun
1.
The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.



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"Axil" Quotes from Famous Books



... pass onwards. There is another tendriled plant, the passion-vine; and this has a cirrus or tendril quite of a different kind from that we have just examined. It is simple and unbranched, springing from the axil of the leaf, straight when young, but speedily becoming spiral, and forming a very close twist round whatever object it seizes. It is spiral to within an inch, or less, of its root, and encircles ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 - Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 • Various


Words linked to "Axil" :   angle


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