axite
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Noun[edit]
axite (countable and uncountable, plural axites)
- (uncountable) A type of smokeless gunpowder.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "This is a Bland's .577 axite express," said he. "I got that big fellow with it." He glanced up at the white rhinoceros.
- (countable) The terminal branch of an axon.