Definition of adaxial in English:
adaxial
adjective adˈaksɪəlaˈdaksēəl
Botany Facing towards the stem of a plant (in particular denoting the upper surface of a leaf).
The opposite of abaxial
Example sentencesExamples
- In Florida, Prokelisia are present throughout the year feeding on the phloem and laying eggs into the adaxial surfaces of the leaves.
- Colour fluorescence micrographs depict the first leaf adaxial surface from 2-week-old wheat.
- The environments of the adaxial and abaxial leaf surface differ in many ways.
- For this reason, separate mechanisms of acclimation for regulation of stomatal density on adaxial and abaxial surfaces have been proposed.
- Since the midvein (indicated by an arrowhead) is at the center of the images it is clearly shown that the leaves curl toward their adaxial surface.