ala
noun
a wing.
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ala
1 American
[ay-luh]
/ ˈeɪ lə /
noun
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alae
plural
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a wing.
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a winglike part, process, or expansion, as of a bone, shell, seed, or stem.
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either of the two side petals of a flower in the legume family, as the pea.
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(in an ancient Roman house) a small room, as an alcove, opening into a larger room or courtyard.
Ala
2
American
[ah-lah]
/ ˈɑ lɑ /
noun
Ala
3
American
abbreviation
Biochemistry.
Ala.
4
American
abbreviation
A.L.A.
5
American
abbreviation
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American Library Association.
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Associate in Liberal Arts.
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Authors League of America.
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Automobile Legal Association.
ala
1
British
/ ˈeɪlə /
noun
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zoology a wing or flat winglike process or structure, such as a part of some bones and cartilages
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botany a winglike part, such as one of the wings of a sycamore seed or one of the flat petals of a sweet pea flower
Ala.
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Etymology
Origin of ala
1730–40; < Latin āla wing, armpit, shoulder, representing *aks-lā, derivative of same base as axis axle ( see axis 1); see axle
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Can he envision playing 17 seasons, ala Stafford?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
Last month I also decided to practice manifestation ala influencer Amanda Francis, and as I delivered four large dishes to a client, I said to myself, “Money is flowing toward me in abundance.”
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
Adding it to your homescreen will reveal color swatches for the various system colors the phone is using based on your wallpaper, ala Material You, so they can be saved or shared.
From The Verge ● Jun. 28, 2022
Nicknames get coined for losses like these, ala the “Monday Night Massacre” of 2010.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 26, 2021
Hwakats ala atcts aiy tubbayhu, Hwakats ashatl atcts aiy tubbayhu, Hwakats astakwahu atcts aiy tubbayhu, Hwakats kailub atcts aiy tubbayhu.
From Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language by Myron Eells
It included only one stop — in Mobile, Ala.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The idea is to serve Hyatt’s more affluent guests, but in smaller markets like Marysville, Calif., and Mobile, Ala.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
She was born in Michigan and also has ties to Montgomery, Ala.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
Her two sisters, Ala and Jana, nod in agreement as we sit, squeezed together on this cold winter's day, on an old lumpy sofa in their humble home in Homs.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024
“Is that why you wanted to study the Ala Wai Canal for the observation journal?”
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
In August, it made a nonbinding offer valued at more than $1 billion to buy Austal USA’s shipyard in Mobile, Ala. Talks remain ongoing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
In Detroit, Indianapolis, Birmingham, Ala., and Louisville, Ky., it also takes fewer than 12 years.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Speaking from their home in Tuscaloosa, Ala., apart from Weaver, Allman brushes off such criticism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Born Trent Clutts on Dec. 16, 1958, in Huntsville, Ala., Cody was inspired to pursue a career in broadcasting during visits to a Kentucky radio station with his dad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Branches and racemes recurved-spreading; leaves lanceolate or ovate, taper-pointed; sepals ovate; anther-cells 1-awned; pod 5-lobed, seeds flat and cellular-winged.—Dry hills, Alleghanies of Va. to Ala. April.—Lower and more straggling than the next.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The A.L.A. experimented with arrangements for choosing the winners before opting, in the late 1930s, for a committee of 23 librarians who selected both the Newbery and Caldecott recipients.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
Up until his remarks at the A.L.A. conference, Ungerer had co-existed in several worlds at once, working brilliantly in each.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2015
But Ungerer crossed a line at the A.L.A. event, as the crowd pushed him—asking how dare he draw “Fornicon” and children’s books.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2015
It was the first A.L.A. award for Mr. Alexander, a poet and novelist who has published 17 books.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2015
Trustees, Boards of, 265; duties of, 279; standpoint in library work, 261; A.L.A. section, 265.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
The wildlife refuge is a wetland that provides nesting, feeding and resting habitat to the endangered Hawaiian stilt, known as aeo, and the Hawaiian coot or alae keokeo.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
Then answered the alae: “If you kill me the secret dies with me, and you won’t get the fire.”
From Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Thrum
One of the alae or wings of the corolla.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
The base is reflected in 3 and straight in 2; the alae are small in 3, moderately large and rounded in 1, and wide and horizontal in 1.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon
Her neck, face, and upper part of the chest showed a beautiful blue tint, principally spreading over the forehead, the alae, and the mouth.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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