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