Definitions for Alar

Alar a·lar

Spelling: [ey-ler]
IPA: /ˈeɪ lər/

Alar is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in Alar (aalr).

Definitions for Alar

adjective

  1. pertaining to or having wings; alary.
  2. winglike; wing-shaped.
  3. Anatomy, Botany. axillary.

Origin of Alar

1830-40; Latin ālāris equivalent to āl(a) wing (see ala) + -āris -ar1

Examples for Alar

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

A rumour was circulated that we should not be allowed to enter at all, the alar being a merchant-vessel.

Horses drag the single carriage up the slight gradient to alar; it returns by the force of its own impetus.

Two spotted ones, whose skins I have preserved, are smaller, being only thirty-four inches in alar extent.

Feather sheaths of the alar tracts penetrated the skin the first day after hatching.

alar'con, king of Barca, who joined the armament of Egypt against the crusaders, but his men were only half armed.

Our vessel was called the alar, and she belonged to Mr. Crockford.

In length, he measures ten and a half inches, in alar extent, nearly seventeen.

About eleven, all, except myself, had left the alar in the full conviction of having enjoyed themselves very much indeed.

alar frenum: a small ligament crossing the supra-alar groove toward the root of the wing: Hymenoptera.

Word Value for Alar
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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