Axial vs Axil - What's the difference?
axial | axil |
Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.
Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.
(botany) in the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis.
(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.
In botany terms the difference between axial and axil
is that axial is in the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis while axil is 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.As an adjective axial
is of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.As a noun axil is
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.axial
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Adjective
(en adjective)- the secondary xylem usually consists of axial and radial elements