alar

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Bi-alar: two-winged; applied to Diptera.

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  1. adjective Resembling, containing, or composed of wings or alae.
  2. adjective Anatomy Concerned with the armpit; axillary.

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  • Fa 2 with cmpde llargà ria total i 55 d'envergadura alar. —  Refinance 2nd Mortgage
  • The parts of this muscle are the furrow part which inserts into the top part of the nasolabial furrow; the alar part which attaches under and behind the wing of the nose (Alae Nasi); and the lip part which inserts continuously into the ridge just above the top lip and to the philtrum. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Environmental Media Services (a project of Fenton Communications, a large public relations firm serving left wing and environmental causes; they are responsible for the alar scare as well as Cindy Sheehan's anti-war campaign.) created a website, realclimate. org, as an 'authoritative' source for the 'truth' about climate.
  • The trash of life is Elias Sime's art http: / / www. csmonitor.com / 2009 / 0313 / p13s03-alar. html —  Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories
  • Zone III skin is thin but fixed to underlying alar cartilage or fibrofatty structures. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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  1. Latin ālāris, from āla, wing.

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  1. from Latin alaris, more frequently alarius (later English alary), from ala, a wing: see aisle.
 

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/ˈeɪlər/
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