(Of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions.
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Examples for "alate "
Examples for "alate "
1 Cells more or less pyriform, alate , narrow below, bulging or ventricose upwards.
2 The Bulls also received alate - game touchdown pass from No.
3 Cells sub-globular, compressed, more or less alate .
4 In contrast, workers, soldiers and alates were almost exclusively sexually produced by mating between the female neotenics and a single king.
5 The colonies also released thousands of winged males and females, known as alates , whose sole purpose is to reproduce and start new colonies.
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