axil

From Latin axilla. Doublet of axilla.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.sɪl/, /ˈæk.səl/

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• Rhymes: -æksəl
• Homophones: axel, axle
• Hyphenation: ax‧il

axil (plural axils)

1. (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.

   Synonym: axilla

   Near-synonyms: crotch, fork

   • 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf‎^[1] (in English), Macmillan, page 202:

     Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.

• Alix

• auxil, axle

From a conflation of Old English eax and Old Norse ǫxull.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaksəl/

axil (plural axils)

1. axle (pole which a wheel revolves around)

• axiltre

• English: axle
• Scots: aixle

• “axel, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 April 2018.

From Proto-Turkic *āgïl. Compare Turkish ağıl.

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈxɪl/

axil m (Arabic spelling ئاخل)

1. fenced-in area for sheep or cattle, pen, corral

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “axil”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[2], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 15