Axillary Synonyms

ăksə-lĕrē
Of or relating to the axil
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. alar

Words Related to Axillary

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. contralateral
  2. antral
  3. mediastinal
  4. axilla
  5. supraclavicular
  6. tonsillar
  7. scrotal
  8. ipsilateral

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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