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A tree (Olea Europæa) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.

A division of serpents which have some of the posterior maxillary teeth grooved for fangs.

r of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries.

One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

e of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennæ, and long maxillary palpi.

mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.

The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.

The mode in which the placenta is arranged or composed; as, axile placentation; parietal placentation.

An order of fishes generally having the maxillary bone united with the premaxillary, and the articular united with the dentary.

S.] -- Poison dogwood (Bot.), poison sumac. -- Poison fang (Zoöl.), one of the superior maxillary teeth of some species of serpents, which, besides having the cavity for the pulp, is either perforated or grooved by a longitudinal canal, at the lower end of which the duct of the poison gland terminates. See Illust. und…

American shrub (Tetranthera geniculata) of the Laurel family, with small oval leaves, and axillary clusters of little yellow flowers. The whole plant is spicy. It grows in ponds and swamps from Virginia to Florida. -- Pond tortoise, Pond turtle (Zoöl.), any freshwater tortoise of the family Emydidæ. Numerous species a…

On the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower. Gray.

A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

to turn, as on an axis. Then in the east her turn she shines, Revolved on heaven's great axile. Milton.

A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.

af, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust. under Axillary.

Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.

One of a family of beetles having the maxillary palpi terminating in a hatchet-shaped joint.

d in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sphenoid bone; as in sphenomaxillary, sphenopalatine.

The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.