- present tense form of ail (3rd person singular).
ails
Example Sentences
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Finger-length ears grow from the axils of their elongated leaves and every one of them consists of a dozen rock-hard seeds.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2024
These slow-moving pests are covered with a mealy wax and tend to cluster in large numbers to feed, appearing as cottony masses in leaf axils and other protected areas.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2022
Heads spicate or racemose in the axils of leaves or leaf-like bracts; fertile flowers with evident corolla.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Pod ovoid-oblong, pointed, 2-celled, 2-valved, septicidal, many-seeded.—Low upright shrubs, with ovate or oblong pointed serrate leaves, and cymosely 3–several-flowered peduncles, from the upper axils or terminal.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Resembling the last; stout, often simple, 1–10° high; leaves becoming rigid and very scabrous, entire or sparingly denticulate; heads rather large, usually short-peduncled, terminal and in the upper axils; scales longer attenuate, more rigid.—Prairies,
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
