Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a wing; alar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the shape of a wing or wings: in anatomy, applied to the pterygoid processes and the muscles associated with them. See
pterygoid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wing-shaped; winglike.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped like a
wing - adjective of a building Having wings
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or resembling wings
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin āla, wing + –form.]
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From Latin ala ("wing") + -form
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