Examples of adaxial in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Many plant scientists see leaves as being broken up into two domains—the upper leaf, or adaxial, and the lower leaf, or abaxial—and have looked at this separation as the key to producing a wide variety of leaf forms. — Maddie Burakoff, Smithsonian Magazine, "Deciphering the Weird, Wonderful Genetic Diversity of Leaf Shapes," 29 Jan. 2020 The two fields run perpendicular to each other, with one from the base to the tip of the leaf and the other from the surface to the adaxial-abaxial boundary. — Maddie Burakoff, Smithsonian Magazine, "Deciphering the Weird, Wonderful Genetic Diversity of Leaf Shapes," 29 Jan. 2020

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