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the upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk

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The council and Galliford Try have said no objections were submitted over the more recent plan, and the developer said it is further away from Axil.
"I can't see Axil from my house, I wouldn't have bought it if I'd known "I've spent PS200,000 on a house nobody will buy now.
Platymantis hazelae utilized mainly leaf axil and screwpines surfaces (Pandanus), usually below 3 m from the ground (but juveniles were observed closer to the ground; 0.1-0.8 m; and were often seen hiding in Pandanus axils containing water).
Inflorescences in axillary raceme of triads, 1 per axil, 6-7 cm in length, 12-16(-18) triads per inflorescence, branches of inflorescence cylindrical, acute bracts at the base of the branches of the inflorescence, middle bract similar to the laterals.
Inflorescence axillary and terminal, a pyramidal panicle with flowers ultimately borne in umbels or corymbs of 4-6, the congestion variable with the proximal pair often separated by up to 2 mm from the terminal cluster, the axes thinly golden- or brownish-sericeous; inflorescence axes often 2 or 3 in same axil, arrayed vertically; bracts 0.5-1 mm long, ovate, appressed, eglandular or occasionally bearing a pair of tiny marginal glands near base; peduncle 1.5-3 mm long, always distinctly shorter than pedicel; bracteoles 0.4-0.7 mm long, ovate, appressed, eglandular or not infrequently bearing a pair of tiny marginal glands near base, borne very low on peduncle, up to 0.5 mm above bract; pedicel 3.5-5 mm long.
La intensidad de rayos X de los elementos detectados en las muestras se midio con el programa AXIL (Vekemans et al., 1994) y el analisis cuantitativo se realizo siguiendo el procedimiento descrito por Rousseau et al.
With wide legal and strategic business experience, Shulman most recently served as general counsel for MIPS Technologies Inc and before that was at Axil Computer, a subsidiary of Hyundai Electronics as the first in-house lawyer and who established Axil's legal department.
With tall-growing cordons remove shoots that form in the axil of the leaves.
Remove rose blooms as soon as they fade, cutting right back to a bid in a leaf axil to ensure the plant retains good shape and continues to flower later in the year ?
Prune larger-leaved evergreens including laurel Remove rose blooms as soon as they fade, cutting right back to a bid in a leaf axil to ensure the plant retains good shape and continues to flower later in the year Pick flowers such as sweet peas and dahlias to encourage further flowering Divide overcrowded and congested clumps of rhizomatous iris, carefully lifting each clump and then dividing them into separate chunks with a sharp knife.
arvensis present physical characteristics such as leaf number, axil number, leaf length and diameter that forms an organographic plant arrangement favourable to its accessory permanence choice, while for N.
At each node, the rachilla bore a lemma in whose axil a floret axis ascended.