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  • noun Plural form of ala.

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Examples

  • Activities include history and storytelling from kupuna, plus a walk to spot the magnificent Hawaiian moorhen, or 'alae' ula (10 a.m.); a native plant walk (11 a.m.);

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • Activities include history and storytelling from kupuna, plus a walk to spot the magnificent Hawaiian moorhen, or 'alae' ula (10 a.m.); a native plant walk (11 a.m.);

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • I supposed some man had the fire, and behold, it was not so; the alae are the proprietors of the fire, and our bananas are all stolen. "

    Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends 1887

  • Possibly some alae production in the global south will eventually make sense.

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

  • I\'d barely spent ten minutes wandering through the aisles at this week\'s Fancy Food Show before I\'d sampled a Belgian chocolate, a tangy English cheddar, a cup of fragrant white tea -- made from the tips of leaves plucked from Sri Lankan bushes -- and a grain of Flavorbank\'s Hawaiian red alae sea salt.

    Sarah Murray: To Boldly Go: Global Food Marches Forward 2008

  • I'd barely spent ten minutes wandering through the aisles at this week's Fancy Food Show before I'd sampled a Belgian chocolate, a tangy English cheddar, a cup of fragrant white tea -- made from the tips of leaves plucked from Sri Lankan bushes -- and a grain of Flavorbank's Hawaiian red alae sea salt.

    Sarah Murray: To Boldly Go: Global Food Marches Forward 2008

  • Promissis everberant, molliunt dulciloquiis, et opportunum tempus aucupantes laqueos ingerunt quos vix Lucretia vitare; escam parant quam vel satur Hippolitus sumeret, &c. Hae sane sunt virgae soporiferae quibus contactae animae ad Orcum descendunt; hoc gluten quo compactae mentium alae evolare nequeunt, daemonis ancillae, quae sollicitant, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • His face became distorted; the alae of the nose worked convulsively; his lips moved quiveringly up and down; his eyelids were expanded into a wild and eager stare; the tongue was now stiff, now played convulsively within the mouth; and the muscles of the throat, larynx, and trachea were sympathetically affected.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • His face became distorted; the alae of the nose worked convulsively; his lips moved quiveringly up and down; his eyelids were expanded into a wild and eager stare; the tongue was now stiff, now played convulsively within the mouth; and the muscles of the throat, larynx, and trachea were sympathetically affected.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • The two Heymans were thus able to demonstrate that expansion of the lungs stopped the respiratory movements of the head in the expiratory position, which was indicated by the recording of laryngeal and alae nasi movements, while collapse of the lungs immediately induced inspiratory-type respiration in the head.

    Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech 1965

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  • "The lateral flaring walls of the nostril (sg. ala)."

    - SNPA

    March 21, 2009

  • *covers snout*

    March 21, 2009