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adaxial
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective adaxial has 1 sense
- adaxial(a = adj.all) ventral - nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism; "the upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface" Antonym: abaxial
OXFORD DICTIONARY
adaxial, adj. Bot. facing toward the stem of a plant, esp. of the upper side of a leaf (cf. ABAXIAL).
Etymology
AD- + AXIAL
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