Alate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having winglike extensions or parts; winged: alate leaves.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having winglike extensions or parts; winged.
  • n. A winged, reproductive form of several social insects
  • ad. recently; lately; of late
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • ad. Lately; of late.
  • adj. Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of late; lately.
  • Winged; having membranous expansions like wings.
  • Specifically— In botany, applied to stems and leaf-stalks with the edges or angles longitudinally expanded into leaf-like borders, or to other organs having membranous expansions: opposed to apterous.
  • In conchology, having an expanded lip: applied to shells. See cut under A porrhaidæ.
  • In architecture, having wings, as a building: as, “an alate temple,”
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions
    • Equivalent
    winged    alated   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lately    winged    alated   
     
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