In the axil of this abnormal leaf were two axillary buds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

They will settle out of court for X shares each in Facebook. reply axil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Of Zuckerberg’s Past May Haunt Facebook IPO] Reference

McCain practices his evil eye for his first meeting with an axil of evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beat 360° 9/29/08] Reference

When the tads hatch, they are transported to a water-filled bromeliad axil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elephants] Reference

When TA breaks an axil on his SUV from a pothole, he'll be the first to complain.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Fable: Ownership Society Failure Hits Home, Park and Street] Reference

To protect the young trees, put in the axil of the leaves a mixture of sawdust and BHC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

The third glume contains no flower in it, but occasionally there may be in its axil three stamens.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Cut the leaves very close to the stem, so that no other plants can grow in the axil of the cut-off leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Except where it is terminal it arises, like the leaf-shoot, in the axil of a leaf, which is then known as a bract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

Bract A small leaf-like organ or modified leaf, especially one with a flower or inflorescence growing from its axil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

Occasionally, as in violet, a flower arises singly in the axil of an ordinary foliage-leaf; it is then termed axillary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

The aerial shoot comes into the air and its lower portion is continued by a branch arising from a lower leaf axil beneath the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

A similar production of buds may take place in the flower itself, either from its centre or from the axil of some of its constituent parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

A scar in the leaf-axil marks the failure of another flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1] Reference

It blooms on May, and shapes like a star as its stalk grows from the axil.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The point at which the petiole attaches to the stem is called the leaf axil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The leaf axil is the upper acute angle between petiole and stem where an axillary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The flowers very large, and extremely beautiful, but only one springing from each leaf-axil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

Petioles long with two awl-shaped stipules at the base, and a large violet spot in the axil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Rising out of the axil of each leaf are buds, of graduated size and development up to the open blossom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference

Each lateral will start again from the axil of the leaf that has been left, and having formed another leaf, should again be cut off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Acre] Reference

Axillary Rising from the axil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

Male up to 4 per axil and up to 10 cm long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Female up to 3 per axil and up to 30 cm long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

2-4 buds often superposed, the uppermost largest and far above the axil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

■ ovat-oblong. ferrata,. leviter villofa • Fl. axil - lar. fspe lolitar» copruIefceQt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa plantarum] Reference