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axile, a.|ˈæksaɪl|
[f. as if ad. L. *axīl-is, f. axis; cf. L. civīlis, hostīlis.]
Belonging to the axis: a. Bot. Applied to an embryo having the same direction as the axis of the seed, or a placenta in the axis of the ovary.
1845Lindley Sch. Bot. i. (1858) 16 If it [the placenta] grows from a centre which is connected with the sides of the ovary by dissepiments..it is axile. 1870Bentley Bot. 342 The embryo is said to be axile, or axial when it has the same direction as the axis of the seed. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 314 Oxyria..embryo axile.
b. in Phys. axile bodies: the touch corpuscles at the termination of the sensory nerves.
1859Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. V. 503/2 Kolliker..prefers to call these bodies, axile corpuscles. 1881Mivart Cat 22. |