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subˈaxillary, a. (n.)
[sub- 1 b, c.]
1. Zool. Situated beneath the axilla; Ornith. = axillary.
b. n. pl. Axillary feathers or wing-coverts (Cent. Dict.).
1769Bancroft Guiana 304 Together with an inflammation and tumefaction of the lymphatic subaxillary glands. 1776Pennant Brit. Zool. II. 421 The subaxillary feathers [of the eared grebe].
2. Bot. Beneath the axil or the angle made by a branch with the stem or a leaf with the branch.
a1802E. Darwin (Webster 1828–32). 1857A. Gray First Less. Bot. (1866) 232. |