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Definition of Axils
1. axil [n] - See also: axil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Axils
Literary usage of Axils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"Cal. and Тех. (Мех.) cordate angulate or lobed leaves, large flowers solitary in
the axils, and large fruits. (Classical Latin name for a gourd. ..."
2. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"Slender, simple, rigidly erect, about 1 ft. gland, ciliate with white hairs;
heads subsessile in the axils of all the leaves from below the middle and thus ..."
3. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"iary in opposite axils spicate, ... obtuse with a deciduous bristle, axils woolly,
flowers crowded in the upper axils, floral leaf oblong or rounded, ..."
4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1895)
"Since the members which arise from the axils of leaves (whether these are small
clothing-scales, or large green laminae does not matter) are not considered ..."
5. Handbook of the Wild and Cultivated Flowering Plants by Chester Arthur Darling (1912)
"501 a Ovary inferior 5O2 502 a Flowers %-1 in. long, solitary or clustered in
the axils b Ovary superior 5O3 b Flowers about % in. long, ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1917)
"In the absence of pigment, the leaf axils and other structures noted above are
... Colored axils, colored flowers X non-colored axils, colored flowers in F1 ..."
7. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1848)
"The bulb is renewed annually, at the approach of winter, by the development of
new bulbs in the axils of the scales, which increase at the expense of the ..."
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