2012-02-15

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2012-02-15 07:14 am

alate

alate (AY-layt) - adj., having wings or winglike extensions, winged.


Fly away! As a noun, in insects with both winged and wingless forms, the winged form is an alate. Borrowed around 1660 from Latin ālātus, from āla, wing.

---L.