alation

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7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
7

Definition of alation

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)The state of being winged.
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noun

  1. (uncountable)The state of being winged.
  2. (countable)A 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 […]”

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Etymology

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

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