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alation

alation noun: the state of being winged.

Noun

alation (countable and uncountable, plural alations)

  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 […]1940, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Collected Reprints, page 117

Forms of alation

pluralalations

Origin of alation

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

Words formed from alation

Questions about alation

What does alation mean?
Alation means the state of being winged.
What part of speech is alation?
Alation is a noun.
What is the plural of alation?
The plural of alation is alations.

Words near alation in the dictionary

  1. alatern
  2. alaterns
  3. alaternus
  4. alaternuses
  5. alates
  6. alation
  7. alations
  8. Alatorre
  9. Alatorres
  10. alatrofloxacin
  11. alaturca

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