(n.) A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anil Bairwal, one of the authors of the thinktank report, said the true number of state and national parliamentarians and candidates facing charges of sexual violence could be far higher, as most attacks were registered without reference to gender.
(2) Anil Cherukupalli is the media and communications manager of WaterAid India.
(3) As a result of condensation of methyl ester I with various aromatic aldehydes in boiling benzene solution, the Schiff-bases (anils) II--VIII were obtained.
(4) No anil was formed if p-hydroxybenzoate was the growth substrate.
(5) "But of all the children Anil was the one you would worry about, where he was going in life, that sort of thing.
(6) "My team's Argentina," said Delhi gym trainer Anil Chikara.
(7) Photos will allow users to index and find images of “people, places and things that matter the most in my life”, as the company’s Anil Sabharwal put it.
(8) Others charged were Anil Kumar, 51, a director of the management consultancy firm McKinsey, and two executives from a fund management firm, New Castle Funds, named as Danielle Chiesi, 43, and Mark Kurland, 60.
(9) It has the support of a wide swath individuals such as internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee, Daniel Ellsberg, Gabriella Coleman, Xeni Jardin, the actor Wil Wheaton, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, and Anil Dash.
(10) One woman, who asked not to be named, said Anil had often played in the street with other children when he was younger.
(11) Anil Dash (@anildash) I used to take circuit boards & electronics to school, even as the only brown kid.
(12) Last month, Vedanta's chairman, Anil Agarwal, had told a shareholder meeting in London that the episode at Korba was an "unfortunate accident".
(13) "The lineup will be the same next year and it's a meltdown for Congress," Anil Padmanabhan, an analyst who writes for local newspaper Mint .
(14) Hard Brexit will cost Treasury up to £66bn a year, ministers are told Read more Anil Kashyap, a newly appointed figure at the Bank, said the UK would lose out from taxes paid by City workers if jobs moved out of the capital as a result of a hard Brexit.
(15) Anil Dash, a prolific blogger and founder of Think-up , quoted Barack Obama saying “Together, let us unleash the imagination of our people, affirm that we are a Nation of makers, and ensure that the next great technological revolution happens right here in America.” Dash added that “many of us have been moved to offer support to Ahmed and his creativity,” and has started to crowdsource a list of ideas “that can help change the culture of Irving to be more welcoming to innovators of all kinds”.
(16) Locals said they thought Anil was studying mechanical engineering at a north-western university.
(17) The London-listed but India-focused miner, controlled by billionaire Anil Agarwal, had so far concentrated on metals such as zinc, copper, aluminium and iron ore.
(18) The shock has been tremendous and widely spread,” says Anil Bhardwaj, the secretary general of the Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises.
(19) Sixteen N-piperidino-(morpholino)-methylisatin-3-anils have been synthesised and evaluated for their antimicrobial activity.
(20) Another senior Bank of England figure, Anil Kashyap, a newly appointed independent policymaker, said this week that the UK would lose out from taxes paid by City workers if jobs moved out of London as a result of a hard Brexit.
Axil
Definition:
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) While R. culicivorax did not adapt to the leaf axil habitat, all plants were without larvae for 5 weeks after treatment with temephos.
(2) Water in leaf axils of the screwpine Pandanus was sampled for mosquito immature stages at seventy villages in Upolu, fifty-five in Savai'i and three in Manono, the main islands of Samoa.
(3) leucostigma, in the submerged Typha dominguensis leaf axils.
(4) Breeding-places of G. palpalis were found in the leaf axils of oilpalm trees (Elaeis guineensis Jacquin), especially beside paths where people would risk being bitten.
(5) In villages in the relatively dry Sudan savanna neither leaf axils nor tree-holes were important Stegomyia larval habitats, but in the more southern Kontagora area of the wetter northern Guinea savanna, these habitats were probably important breeding sites.
(6) and 1.3% of tree holes, plant axils, and cut bamboos were infested.
(7) The isolation of two entomopathogenic fungi from Forcipomyia marksae larvae collected in leaf axils of Colocasia macrorrhiza in northeastern Queensland rain forests is reported.
(8) The banana axils is a favorite breeding place for Aedes poecilus but may also utilize the abaca axils.
(9) High squa transcript levels are seen in the inflorescence lateral meristems as soon as they are formed in the axils of bracts.
(10) Plants homozygous for this mutation display a homeotic conversion of sepsis into brachts and the concomitant formation of floral buds in the axil of each transformed sepal.
(11) poicilius accounted for 58% of larvae found in the axils of banana plants and 31% of those in abaca axils; negligible numbers of larvae of this species were found in pandanus and gabi axils.