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Definition of Axillars

1. axillar [n] - See also: axillar

Medical Definition of Axillars

1. Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Axillars

Literary usage of Axillars

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"axillars, white with dark shafts ; no white shoulder patch: head, ... axillars, grayish white; head, brown, not speckled; stripe of white on sides of neck; ..."

2. The Game Birds of California by Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer (1918)
"Under surface of spread wing of Black- bellied Plover showing axillars and lining of wing. One-half natural size. MANDIBLE—Either the upper or the lower ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1912)
"The only invariable characters in either sex are the rufous axillars and gray chest-band of the females, and the white axillars of the males. ..."

4. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"First Primary and axillars of Hudsonian Curlew, . . . 331 FIGURE 19. ... axillars and First Primary of Eskimo Curlew, . . . 417 FIGURE 21. ..."

5. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"axillars black, not barred; bill under 3.47; wing usually under 8.50. ... axillars barred with black. a1. Bill both widened and pitted at tip. b1. ..."

6. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"Primaries not barred 230. WILSON'S SNIPE. В. axillars not barred. a. ... axillars black. Ы. Underparts chestnut-rufous, barred with black. 251. ..."

7. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"axillars and under wing-coverts pure white; smaller (wing 350-401 in male, ... axillars and under wing-coverte pale brownish gray or tinged with that color ..."

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