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单词 alary
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alaryadj.

Brit. /ˈeɪləri/, U.S. /ˈeɪləri/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ālāris.
Etymology: < classical Latin ālāris of auxiliary cavalry, in post-classical Latin sense ‘of or resembling wings’ (see alar adj.). Compare French alaire (1647 designating a muscle, or earlier). Compare later alar adj.
Chiefly Zoology (rare before 19th cent.).
Of or relating to wings, esp. those of an insect or other animal. Also: designating a winglike structure. Cf. alar adj.
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alary1658
aliform1698
alate1743
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bats-wing1838
alated1879
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iv, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 181 The lower leaf [of leguminous plants] closely involving..the alary or wingy divisions.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 945/2 It is the first alary nerve, and is given to the future anterior pair of wings.
1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 42 821 Can't I use part of the fortune in advancing my great project of alary aerostation?
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vii. 434 The alary muscles.
1903 Jrnl. New York Entomol. Soc. 11 188 (caption) Fan-shaped muscle bundles (‘alary’ muscles) of diaphragm.
1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) ii. 57 The heart shows a series of dilatations or chambers usually corresponding in number to the pairs of ostia and of alary muscles.
1970 Herpetologica 26 261 The alary processes of the premaxillaries are moderately separated medially.
2007 C. Lafait tr. S. Berthier Iridescences iii. 36/1 The alary membrane only takes part in the infrared properties of the wing, and not in the visible coloration.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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