Alar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Resembling, containing, or composed of wings or alae.
  • adj. Anatomy Concerned with the armpit; axillary.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. of or relating to the armpit; axillary.
  • adj. Having, resembling, or composed of wings or alae.
  • n. A growth-regulating chemical sprayed on fruit trees; entire crop can be harvested at one time; daminozide.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to, or having, wings.
  • adj. Axillary; in the fork or axil.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or having alæ or wings.
  • In botany, borne in the forks of a stem; axillary; situated in the axils or forks of a plant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a chemical sprayed on fruit trees to regulate their growth so the entire crop can be harvested at one time
  • adj. having or resembling wings
  • adj. of or relating to the axil
  • Equivalent
    winged   
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    axillary    alate    winglike    wing-shaped    winged    alated   
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