Ala

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Zoology A wing or winglike structure or part.
  • n. Anatomy A flat, winglike anatomic process or part, especially of bone.
  • n. Botany The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or either one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family.
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  • preposition. Alternative form of a la.
  • n. A wing or winglike structure.
  • n. A winglike anatomical process or part, especially of bone.
  • n. The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family.
  • n. In ancient Rome, a small room opening into a larger room or courtyard.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A winglike organ, or part.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany: One of the two side petals of a papilionaceous blossom, or the membranous expansion of an organ, as of a fruit, seed, stem, etc. See cut under banner.
  • n. In mosses, one of the basal lobes or auricles of the leaves.
  • n. An axilla or axil.
  • n. In anat., zoöl., etc.:
  • n. A wing.
  • n. Any part of a wing-like or flap-like character: as, ala auris, the upper and outer part of the external ear.
  • n. The armpit.
  • n. plural Specifically, in Cirripedia, the lateral parts of the shell, as distinguished from the parietes, when they are overlapped by others; when they overlap they are termed radii.
  • n. In anc. Rom. arch., a wing or a small apartment placed on each side of the atrium of a Roman house. Audsley.
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  • n. a wing of an insect
  • n. a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    wing    process    appendage    outgrowth   
    Variant
    alae   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gala    Kayla    Venezuela    gala    monongahela   
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