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Type Words
Type of angle
Derivation axillary

Examples of axil

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Suckers are new growths that appear in the axil between the leaf and the stem.
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They are usually solitary, but occasionally an axil will carry two flowers.
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The yellow flowers are usually 1-3 in an umbel, often with several umbels from one leaf-axil.
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Occasionally, as in violets, a flower arises singly in the axil of an ordinary foliage-leaf.
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The inconspicuous, self-fertile flowers are borne in the axil of the leaf and are white, pink or purple.
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This is the same point from which flower clusters arise, and often both a flower cluster and a sucker may grow in the same axil.
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As in the case of all bromeliads, both fertilizer and water are applied foliarly, water settling in the cups or leaf axil depressions.
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Shoot branching is a highly plastic developmental process in which axillary buds are formed in the axil of each leaf and may subsequently be activated to give branches.
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More examples
  • The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk
  • In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat (laminar) and thin. ...
  • (Axils) Trees can be identified by examination of several characteristics.
  • 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
  • (axils) 1. the upper angle where the small stem of a plant joins a larger one, or where the leaf stalk joins the stem. From the Latin axilla, armpit.
  • (Axils) The joint of two plant parts, such as tubercles or stem and leaf
  • The angle between one part of a plant and another part, e.g. a branch and a leaf. adj. axillary
  • The juncture of a petiole (leaf stem) with the crown or the juncture of a pedicel (individual bloom stem) with a peduncle.
  • The upper angle between a scale and the flower/fruit body. In Notocactus the bristles and hair/wool grows from here.