Alar
pertaining to or having wings; alary.
winglike; wing-shaped.
Anatomy, Botany, .
a brand of daminozide.
Historical Examples
Horses drag the single carriage up the slight gradient to alar; it returns by the force of its own impetus.
The Fortunate Isles Mary Stuart Boyd
In this coral the calicle is divided into quadrants by four principal septa, the main septum, counter septum, and two alar septa.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 Various
“The children of alar seem good,” remarked the Lady, who has the gift of saying graceful things.
The Fortunate Isles Mary Stuart Boyd
Feather sheaths of the alar tracts penetrated the skin the first day after hatching.
Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers Part One and Part Two Arthur Bent
A rumour was circulated that we should not be allowed to enter at all, the alar being a merchant-vessel.
Soyer’s Culinary Campaign Alexis Soyer
alar frenum: a small ligament crossing the supra-alar groove toward the root of the wing: Hymenoptera.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
alar’con, king of Barca, who joined the armament of Egypt against the crusaders, but his men were only half armed.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
Two spotted ones, whose skins I have preserved, are smaller, being only thirty-four inches in alar extent.
Round Cape Horn Joseph Lamson
About eleven, all, except myself, had left the alar in the full conviction of having enjoyed themselves very much indeed.
Soyer’s Culinary Campaign Alexis Soyer
As the grey-bearded superintendent told us, alar was the first town on the island to have electric light installed.
The Fortunate Isles Mary Stuart Boyd
adjective
relating to, resembling, or having wings or alae
denoting the cells at the base of a moss leaf, to the sides, that sometimes differ in structure from cells in the rest of the leaf
noun
a chemical sprayed on cultivated apple trees in certain countries, to increase fruit set Also called daminozide
adj.
“wing-like,” c.1840; “of or pertaining to wings,” 1847, from Latin alaris, from ala “wing, armpit, wing of an army” (source of Spanish ala, French aile), from *axla, originally “joint of the wing or arm;” from PIE *aks- (see axis).
alar a·lar (ā’lər)
adj.
Resembling, containing, or composed of wings or alae; axillary.
Relating to the ala of such structures as the nose, sphenoid bone, and sacrum.
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alara as late as reasonably achievable as low as reasonably achievable Historical Examples Buddha, to whom the past is known, had already seen that alara was dead. The Life or Legend of Gaudama Right Reverend Paul Ambroise Bigandet In batches of six, Crittenden and his fifty brave surviving comrades were shot beneath the walls of […]
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Pedro Antonio [pe-th raw ahn-taw-nyaw] /ˈpɛ ðrɔ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Pedro Antonio Alarcón y Ariza) 1833–91, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and diplomat. Contemporary Examples “I guess they went to DSM-IV, but perhaps did not know about DSM-5,” alarcon said with a laugh. Sandusky To Try Nearly Obsolete Histrionic Personality Disorder Defense Jesse Singal June […]
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a.d. c370–410, king of the Visigoths: captured Rome 410. Historical Examples This alone was a notable achievement, and already Alaric believed he could perceive a glimmer of the light he had set out to find. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast Kirk Munroe Alaric informed Jim that such a basket was worth a […]