Axillary Definition

ăksə-lĕrē
adjective
Of or near the axilla.
Webster's New World
Of, in, or growing from an axil.
Webster's New World
Of, relating to, or located near the axilla.
American Heritage Medicine
Of, relating to, or located in an axil.
Axillary bud.
American Heritage Medicine

Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.

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Synonyms:
noun

Axillar.

Webster's New World

Origin of Axillary

  • Alteration by association with -ary of the French axillaire (“of the axilla”), itself an alteration of the earlier forms aisselliere and aissellaire, both from the assumed Latin etymon *axillāris, from axilla (“armpit”), diminutive form of the assumed *axula.

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Axillary Sentence Examples

  • The flowers are generally arranged in terminal or axillary clusters, and are markedly regular with the same number of parts in each series.

  • In the case of alternate leaves, the stipules at the base of each leaf are sometimes united to the petiole and to each other, so as to form an adnate, adherent or petiolary stipule, as in the rose, or an axillary stipule, as in Houttuynia cordata.

  • The flowers, which are solitary, or rarely in pairs, at the end of slender axillary flower-stalks, are very irregular in form, with five sepals prolonged at the base, and five petals, the lowest one larger than the others and with a spur, in which collects the honey secreted by the spurs of the two adjoining stamens.

  • While the tendril is thus diverted from its original direct course, the axillary bud of the leaf opposite the tendril begins a new podium, by lengthening into a shoot which assumes the direction the tendril had prior to its deflexion.

  • The flowers are small, and borne on axillary shoots.

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