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alations

alations is the plural of alation.

Meaning of alation

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

Questions about alations

What is alations the plural of?
Alations is the plural of alation.

Words near alations in the dictionary

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

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