Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to the axilla or armpit.
Another time a red-haired school girl hung over me in the metro , and a revelation of axillary russet I obtained remained in my blood for weeks. I could list a great number of these one-sided diminutive romances.
1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC - not comparablebiologySituated in, or rising from, an axil; relating to an axil.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof or relating to the axil
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchaxillaire“of the axilla”
- Englishaxillary
Alteration by association with -ary of the French axillaire (“of the axilla”), itself an alteration of the earlier forms aisselliere and aissellaire, both from the assumed Latin etymon *axillāris, from axilla (“armpit”), diminutive form of the assumed *axula.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan axil·lar, axil·lar
- axil·larof or pertaining to the axilla
- axil·larbotany
Finnish kainalo-
- kainalo-of or pertaining to the axilla
French axillaire
- axillaireof or pertaining to the axilla
Indonesian aksilar
- aksilarbotany
Italian ascellare
- ascellareof or pertaining to the axilla
Polish pachowy, szczytowy
- pachowyof or pertaining to the axilla
- szczytowybotany
Portuguese axilar
- axilarof or pertaining to the axilla
Spanish axilar, axilar
- axilarof or pertaining to the axilla
- axilarbotany
Tagalog biklatan
- biklatanbotany
Welsh ceseiliol
- ceseiliolbotany
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with axillary
Cite this entry
axillary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/axillary
“axillary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/axillary. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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