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Definition of Adaxial
1. Adjective. Nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism. "The upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface"
Definition of Adaxial
1. Adjective. (botany) On the side that is towards the axis or central line, usually on the upper side. ¹
2. Adjective. (''developmental biology'') adjacent to the axis, or in vertebrates the notochord. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adaxial
1. situated on the same side as [adj]
Medical Definition of Adaxial
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Adaxial
Literary usage of Adaxial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"9, A), shows four nearly equal vascular bundles, of which one is on the
outer (abaxial) side, the other three on the adaxial side. ..."
2. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"The two adaxial bundles divide into several branches, this beginning just below the
... The successive branching of the two adaxial bundles follows in quick ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"Staminate sporophylls; the two at the left show the adaxial surface, the two at
the right the abaxial surface, the middle one a ..."
4. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"The strands arrange themselves in an approximate circle in the transverse section,
while those on the adaxial side pass out into the fertile spike. ..."
5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... reflected) and an adaxial in the case of the outer gill* plate, and an adaxial
and an inner (the reflected) in the case of the inner gill-plate. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... composed of two lamelle, an outer (the reflected) and an adaxial in the ...
and an adaxial and an inner (the reflected) in the case of the inner ..."
7. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"... er, reflected lamella of outer gill-plate ; /, adaxial lamella of inner
gill-plate ; fr, reflected lamella of inner gill-plate; g, line of concrescence ..."
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