is that axe is a tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it while axes is plural of lang=en.
As nouns the difference between axes and polysporangiophyte
is that axes is plural of lang=en while polysporangiophyte is any plant in which the sporophyte has a structure of branching stems (axes) terminating in sporangia.