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单词 axile
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axileadj.

/ˈaksʌɪl/
Etymology: Formed as if < Latin *axīlis, < axis; compare Latin civīlis, hostīlis.
Belonging to the axis; (Botany) applied to an embryo having the same direction as the axis of the seed, or a placenta in the axis of the ovary.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [adjective] > of parts > relating to embryo or radicle
rostellate1800
orthotropous1819
peritropal1819
radicular1819
rostelliform1819
homotropous1829
heterotropous1830
heterotropal1832
axile1839
amphitropous1841
homotropal1844
rostellara1845
amphitropal1847
peritropous1849
polyembryonate1864
polyembryonic1864
proembryonic1875
1839 J. Lindley School Bot. i. 13 If it [sc. the placenta] grows from a centre which is connected with the sides of the ovary by dissepiments..it is axile.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iv. 350 The embryo is said to be axile, or axial when it has the same direction as the axis of the seed.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 314 Oxyria..embryo axile.

Compounds

axile bodies n. Physiol. the touch corpuscles at the termination of the sensory nerves.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > sensory corpuscles, etc.
axile bodies1859
neuroepithelium1878
spindle1896
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 503/2 Kolliker..prefers to call these bodies, axile corpuscles.
1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 22.

Draft additions October 2011

Of the core of an apple or other pome (when viewed in transverse section): having the seed chambers arranged symmetrically and close to or meeting at the main axis of the fruit; (of seed chambers) having this arrangement. Now rare.
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1884 R. Hogg Fruit Man. (ed. 5) p. xiii These carpels or seed-cells vary in shape... In relation to the axis of the fruit, they are either axile or abaxile. When the walls extend to the axis..the cells are symmetrical,..and then they are said to be axile, whether they are open..or closed... When they are distant from the axis, and the cells are unsymmetrical..they are called abaxile.
1920 E. A. Bunyard Handbk. Hardy Fruits 24 The core of a Blenheim is axile and the seeds are long and pointed, while the core of Beauty of Hants is abaxile and the seeds are short and plump.
1951 Econ. Proc. Royal Dublin Soc. 4 50 Core axile, cells closed or slit, core lines clasping.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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