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ALA
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Irregular inflected form: alae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wing of an insect
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ala" is a kind of...):
wing (a movable organ for flying (one of a pair))
Holonyms ("ala" is a part of...):
insect (small air-breathing arthropod)
Derivation:
alary (having or resembling wings)
alate ((of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
Example:
the flat petals of a pea blossom are alae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ala" is a kind of...):
appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)
Derivation:
alary (having or resembling wings)
alate ((of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions)
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