Associations to the word «Axil»

Wiktionary

AXIL, noun. (botany) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.

Dictionary definition

AXIL, noun. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope