a. [f. as prec.; see -ARY2.]
1. Pertaining or adjacent to the armpit or shoulder.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 977. The second [tacke of the backe] is called … the Axillary spondell.
1791. W. Vaughan, Princ. Anat., I. 381. The Axillary artery.
1842. E. Wilson, Anat. Vade M., 345. The axillary vein is formed by the union of the venæ comitis of the brachial artery with the basilic vein.
1871. Darwin, Desc. Man, II. xv. 179. The white striae and spots on the axillary feathers.
2. Bot. Situated in, or growing from, the axil.
1786. Rees, Encycl., Axillary leaves … grow out of the angles formed by the branches of the stem.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., Introd. 23. All Labiatæ have axillary cymes.
