Definition of Axil. Meaning of Axil. Synonyms of Axil

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Definition of Axil

Axil
Axil Ax"il, n. [L. axilla. Cf. Axle.] (Bot.) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs. --Gray.

Meaning of Axil from wikipedia

- photosynthesis. The upper (adaxial) angle between a leaf and a stem is known as the axil of the leaf. It is often the location of a bud. Structures located there...
- Armpit fetishism (also known as maschalagnia or axillism (also spelled axilism)) is a type of partialism in which a person is ****ually attracted to armpits...
- botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem. Once formed, a bud may remain for some...
- bud (or lateral bud) is an embryonic or organogenic shoot located in the axil of a leaf. Each bud has the potential to form shoots, and may be specialized...
- Belezbar is based on Beelzebub. The player controls the neophyte wizard Axil the Able and must help him escape from the dungeons below the castle of Colloden's...
- of fruit containing seeds. It may arise terminally on a shoot or from the axil of a leaf. The flower-bearing part of the plant is usually sharply distinguished...
- epiphytes. Among the epiphytes, the bromeliads ac****ulate water in their leaf axils; these water-filled cavities can support complex aquatic food webs. Some...
- Halic****es podostigma, the axil spot wr****e, is a species of sal****er wr****e found in the western-central Pacific Ocean. This species reaches a length...
- The black-axil chromis (Chromis atripectoralis), also known as the blackfin chromis or blue-green puller, is a damselfish from the tropical Indo-Pacific...
- from bracts. Among conifers, a leaf of any kind does not emerge from the axil of a bract.: 55  Eckenwalder, James E. (2009). Conifers of the World: the...