abaxial
English
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From ab- (“away from”) + axial (“axis”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌæˈbæk.si.əl/[1] or IPA(key): /æbˈæk.si.əl/[2]
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Canada): (file) - Hyphenation US: ab‧ax‧i‧al, UK: ab‧ax‧ial
Adjective
[edit]abaxial (not comparable)
- (botany, zoology) Of a side that is facing away from the axis or central line, such as the underside of a leaf, or the back of an animal. [Mid 19th century.][3][4]
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 7:
- The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
- (botany) Not in the axis. Applied to an embryo placed out of the axis of the seed.[5]
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[edit]botany, zoology: of a side away from central line
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off the axis
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References
[edit]- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 2
- ^ William Morris, editor (1969 (1971 printing)), “abaxial”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 2.
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abaxial”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.
- ^ Eleanor Lawrence (1989), “abaxial”, in Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms, Wiley, →ISBN, page 2
- ^ Jackson, Benjamin Daydon (1928), A glossary of botanic terms with their derivation and accent[1], Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 1
Catalan
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[edit]- IPA(key): (Northern, Central) [ə.βək.siˈal]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ə.bək.siˈal]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [a.bak.siˈal]
- IPA(key): (Northwestern) [a.βak.siˈal]
Adjective
[edit]abaxial m or f (masculine and feminine plural abaxials)
Further reading
[edit]- “abaxial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “abaxial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
French
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[edit]- IPA(key): /a.bak.sjal/
Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)): (file) Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)
Adjective
[edit]abaxial (plural abaxiaux)
Galician
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[edit]abaxial m or f (plural abaxiais)
- abaxial (that is not on the optical axis)
- (medicine) abaxial (which is outside the line considered the axis of an organ)
German
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[edit]abaxial (strong nominative masculine singular abaxialer, not comparable)
Declension
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Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]abaxial m or f (plural abaxiais)
Further reading
[edit]- “abaxial”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “abaxial”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
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Pronunciation
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[edit]abaxial m or n (feminine singular abaxială, masculine plural abaxiali, feminine/neuter plural abaxiale)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||||
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| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | abaxial | abaxială | abaxiali | abaxiale | ||
| definite | abaxialul | abaxiala | abaxialii | abaxialele | |||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | abaxial | abaxiale | abaxiali | abaxiale | ||
| definite | abaxialului | abaxialei | abaxialilor | abaxialelor | |||
Spanish
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[edit]abaxial m or f (masculine and feminine plural abaxiales)
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eǵ- (drive)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eḱs-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂el- (grow)
- English terms prefixed with ab- (away)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂epó
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- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eḱs-
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eǵ- (drive)
- French terms prefixed with ab-
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/al
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/aw
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