Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling, containing, or composed of wings or alae.
- adj. Anatomy Concerned with the armpit; axillary.
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.
Wiktionary
- adj. anatomy 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, or having, wings.
- adj. (Bot.) Axillary; in the fork or axil.
WordNet 3.0
- 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
Etymologies
- From Latin ala ("wing") + -ar (adjectival suffix). (Wiktionary)
- Latin ālāris, from āla, wing. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“These form two fringe-like folds termed the alar folds; below, these folds converge and are continued as a single band, the patellar fold (ligamentum mucosum), to the front of the intercondyloid fossa of the femur.”
“Apples get their alar -- Dr. Oz is just one of many who worries about what's inside our favorite northern fruit.”
The Huffington Post: Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Food Safety and Terrorism
“While alar was a chemical sprayed by humans on fruit to regulate its growth, traces of mercury have existed in ocean fish since the beginning of time from sources like underwater volcanic activity.”
The Huffington Post: Jennifer McGuire: Why You Should Eat Fish
“Just like the Meryl Streep commercial about alar horrified new moms away from apples in the late 1980s, fear-mongering messages about mercury in seafood contribute to the woefully low amount of seafood women eat today in the U.S. The distinction is that seafood- and omega-3-deficient diets introduce measurable risks to health.”
The Huffington Post: Jennifer McGuire: Why You Should Eat Fish
“I needed a nap rite after da alar wented off, so I wuz little lyte fur wurks.”
“After we got our packing finished, we set our alar for 6am.”
“But to attempt to disprove something about political leaning by rebutting with statistics about minority ownership is like attempting to disprove the alar controversy by talking about DDT.”
“He asked us to remain with Jesus at the alar of repose for a while and asked us to be thankful for the great gift of the Blessed Sacrament.”
“His daring imagination gives him the more solid grasp of facts; as the birds of highest flight have the strongest alar bones.”
“Alar frenum: a small ligament crossing the supra-alar groove toward the root of the wing: Hymenoptera.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alar’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
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http://phrontistery.i...aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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SCIE - neurology
abducens.....draw..., ablation.....carr..., acetylcholine......., adrenalin.....nea..., afferent.....to c..., agnosia.....no kn..., alar.....wing-like, alexia.....no words, alveus.....canal, amacrine.....no l..., ambidextrous........, ambiguus.....doub... and 701 more...
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phrontistery - a
from phrontistery.info
aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1387 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 557 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Things Avian
Wordies relating to birdies. :-)
calidrid, corvid, avian, avifauna, beak, brood, aerie, altricial, albumen, winged, wattle, covey and 217 more...
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jgs's Words
liminal, luminescence, trajectory, simulacrum, thundersnow, trappings, rigour, temporality, mammalian, diffuse, tearing, flail and 83 more...
Tweets
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biocon The examples of the use of "alar" in sentences involve misspellings of other words. May 28, 2011