ADJECTIVE
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(of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions
alate seeds of a maple tree
alate leaves
How To Use alated In A Sentence
- The section consists of calcareous shale with intercalated sparse limestone beds, dolomitic shales, and some dolostone beds.
- The threat to foreign contractors has escalated in the past month following a series of kidnappings and murders.
- They kept a low profile until the controversy had alated.
- Am I remorseful that it got out of hand and escalated into mass hysteria?
- The Soviet Union tested its own hydrogen bomb within a year, and the nuclear arms race escalated further.
- As growth proceeds, intercalated or bifurcate ribs may appear between the paired ribs, furcation normally occurring on the lower third of the flank.
- Since his ouster violence has escalated in the capital.
- In 1992, the violence escalated with the murders of two prominent producers and numerous incidents of extortion and threats.
- The fighting escalated into a full-scale war.
- He has sharply escalated his profile in recent weeks, however, by invoking India's Gandhian tradition of fasting to evince political change. India's Anti-Corruption Leaders Renew Government Pressure