Alation

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being winged. uncountable
  2. 2
    A wing or wing-like structure. countable

    "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 […]"

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"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 […]"

Etymology

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

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