What's the difference between aril and axil?

Aril


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Arillus

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Aril 3 kg of fenitrothion per ha is necessary, if tick control is to be ensured until the appearance of the new generation, i.e.
  • (2) The first mass blood pressure screeing in a major metropolitan area was conducted in New Orleans on Aril 28 and 29, 1973.
  • (3) (Leguminosae) (arils) were acquired as part of a continuing search for high-intensity natural sweeteners of plant origin.
  • (4) To determine the source of contamination, the HG-A content in the ackee fruit components (aril, seeds, and husks) at various stages of ripeness was determined by a method using an amino acid analyzer.
  • (5) From February to Aril thickening of the seminiferous epithelium and appearance of spermatozoa in the caput epididymidis signalled re-establishment of sperm production.
  • (6) Between Aril 1975 and December 1976, the second nationwide survey of Meniere's disease in Japan was made by the 17 members of the Meniere's Disease Research Committee of Japan.
  • (7) The present paper reports the chemopreventive action of mace (aril covering the testa of the seed of Myristica fragrans) on 3-methylcholanthrene (MCA)-induced carcinogenesis in the uterine cervix of virgin, young adult, Swiss albino mice.
  • (8) Mace which is the aril of the fruit of Myristica fragrans HOUTT, has been used in Indonesian folk medicine as aromatic stomachics, analgesics, a medicine for rheumatism, etc.
  • (9) Callus cultures of Taxus cuspidata and Taxus canadensis were induced using different tissue explants including green and red arils, seed contents, young stems and needles.
  • (10) The protease has also been identified in crude aril extracts by affinity labelling with iodo[14C]acetate.
  • (11) A mixture of isophytohemagglutinins has been isolated from the fleshy arils of the spindle tree seeds (Evonymus europaea L.) by fractional precipitation of the saline extract of the arils by (NH4)2SO4 at a 0.40% saturation.
  • (12) Thaumatopain has been purified by ion-exchange chromatography from arils, and is a monomeric protein of Mr 30,000.
  • (13) To remove the arils, roll the fruit firmly over a hard surface, then cut in half, push up the base slightly to loosen, then hold over a large bowl and whack sharply with a wooden spoon to dislodge the seeds.
  • (14) Aqueous extracts of the aril of the seed of Thaumatococcus daniellii contain, in addition to the intensely sweet protein thaumatin, a cysteine protease that we have termed thaumatopain.
  • (15) The present paper reports the chemopreventive property of mace (aril covering the seed of Myristica fragrans) on DMBA-induced papillomagenesis in the skin of male Swiss albino mice.

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.

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