alation

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noun

The state of being winged.

OriginLatin alatus →
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Meanings

nounalation (countable and uncountable, plural alations)

plural alations

  1. uncountableThe state of being winged.
  2. countableA wing or wing-like structure.

    Sculpture of strong wing-like structures or alations, initiated first below the smooth nuclear whorls as broad and somewhat flattened axial ridges, which on the sixth whorl become slightly oblique and expanded […]

    1940, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Collected Reprints, page 117

Origin

  1. Latinalatus“winged”
  2. Englishalation

Borrowed from French, from Latin alatus (“winged”).

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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