This flashcard defines "alar" as an adjective relating to wings or being wing-shaped, or relating to the armpit. It comes from the Latin word "ala", meaning "wing."
Este flashcard define "alar" como un adjetivo que se relaciona con las alas o tiene forma de ala, o que se relaciona con la axila. Proviene de la palabra latina "ala", que significa "ala".
| Back | alar /AY-luhr/ |
|---|---|
| Front | adjective 1. Relating to wings; wing-shaped. 2. Relating to the armpit. [From Latin ala (wing), which also gave us aisle and aileron. Earliest documented use: 1791.] “Fred Urquhart began in 1937 to experiment with different ways of marking these delicate insects in order to study their migration patterns, eventually developing and refining the method of applying an alar tag to the monarch’s wing.” - Gerry Rising; A Salute to the King of the Monarch Butterflies; Buffalo News (New York); Dec 16, 1996. |
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