Definitions for anlages

anlages an·la·ge

Spelling: [ahn-lah-guh]
IPA: /ˈɑn lɑ gə/

Anlages is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in anlages (aaeglns).

Definitions for anlages

noun

  1. Embryology. an embryonic area capable of forming a structure: the primordium, germ, or bud.
  2. Psychology. an inherited predisposition to certain traits or to a particular character development.

Origin of anlages

1890-95; German Anlage foundation, basis, as noun derivative of anlegen to lay on or out, apply, equivalent to an- on + legen to Examples for anlages

Hatchlings flex the plastron chiefly in the region of the humeropectoral seam, rather than at the anlage of the transverse hinge.

The respiratory system is represented by the anlage of the lungs, a longitudinal protrusion of the ventral wall of the esophagus.

A leaf may be formed out of the anlage of a scale, if all the leaves are cut off, and so on.

As this groove is followed caudad its ventral wall is seen to become much thickened, tg, to form the anlage of the thyroid gland.

By virtue of this difference the egg-substance is characterized as the anlage, or germ of the mature organism.

Braus138 has proved this by transplanting the anlage of a foreleg to different parts of the body.

According to the author, anlage may be variously rendered as rudiment, inception or primordium.

Word Value for anlages
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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