Alar Definition

ālər
adjective
Of or like a wing.
Webster's New World
Having wings.
Webster's New World
Resembling, containing, or composed of wings or alae.
American Heritage Medicine
Concerned with the armpit; axillary.
American Heritage Medicine

(anatomy) Of or relating to the armpit; axillary.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
noun

A growth-regulating chemical sprayed on fruit trees; entire crop can be harvested at one time; daminozide.

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Other Word Forms of Alar

Noun

Singular:
alar
Plural:
alars

Origin of Alar

  • From Latin ala (“wing”) + -ar (adjectival suffix).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin ālāris from āla wing

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Alar Sentence Examples

  • In addition to an enormous body of new information chiefly on the shoulder girdle, the alar muscles and the nerve plexuses of birds, this work contained a critical and descriptive summary of practically the whole pre-existing literature on the structure of birds, and it is hardly necessary for the student of ornithology to refer to earlier literature at first hand.

  • In this coral the calicle is divided into quadrants by four principal septa, the main septum, counter septum, and two alar septa.

  • The remaining septa are so disposed that in the quadrants abutting on the chief septum they converge towards that septum, whilst in the other quadrants they converge towards the alar septa.

  • The secondary septa show a regular gradation in size, and, assuming that the smallest were the most recently formed, it will be noticed that in the chief quadrants the youngest septa lie nearest to the main septum; in the other quadrants the youngest septa lie nearest to the alar septa.

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