a. (sb.) [SUB- 1 b, c.]

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  1.  Zool. Situated beneath the axilla; Ornith. = AXILLARY. b. sb. pl. Axillary feathers or wing-coverts (Cent. Dict.).

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1769.  E. Bancroft, Guiana, 304. Together with an inflammation and tumefaction of the lymphatic subaxillary glands.

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1776.  Pennant, Brit. Zool., II. 421. The subaxillary feathers [of the eared grebe].

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  2.  Bot. Beneath the axil or the angle made by a branch with the stem or a leaf with the branch.

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a. 1802.  E. Darwin (Webster, 1828–32).

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1857.  A. Gray, First Less. Bot. (1866), 232.

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