Meanings of alate in English

Cells more or less pyriform, alate, narrow below, bulging or ventricose upwards.

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Cells sub-globular, compressed, more or less alate.

In contrast, workers, soldiers and alates were almost exclusively sexually produced by mating between the female neotenics and a single king.

The colonies also released thousands of winged males and females, known as alates, whose sole purpose is to reproduce and start new colonies.