Axile

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or belonging to an axis or the axis; axial.
  • Situated in an axis or the axis, as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.
  • In zoology, axial, with reference to ovarian organs or ova: opposed in this sense to peripheral.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.
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  • adjective. Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.
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  • adjective. relating to or attached to the axis
    • Word Usage
    "AXILE, or AXIAL, a term (= related to the axis) used technically in science; in botany an embryo is called axile when it has the same direction as the axis of the seed."
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    axil  axilla  
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