alation

English

Etymology

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

Noun

alation (countable and uncountable, plural alations)

1. (uncountable) The state of being winged.
2. (countable) A wing or wing-like structure.
   • 1940, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Collected Reprints, page 117:

     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 […]

Derived terms

• dealation

Anagrams

• Anatoli, Atilano, Laotian, Latina/o, Latino/a, Latonia, ailanto