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-ales

Botany.
  1. a suffix of names of orders:

    Cycadales.



-ales

suffix forming plural proper nouns

  1. denoting plants belonging to an order

    Filicales

    Rosales

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ales1

< Latin plural of -ālis -al 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ales1

New Latin, from Latin, plural of -ālis -al 1
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Example Sentences

Twenty-Five years after joining Rogue Ales, he still has his passion—and an obsession with hops.

As I worked at fancier restaurants, we served various Pilsners, Amber Ales, India Pale Ales, and a multitude of microbrews.

A person who does not understand who he is,” the political scientist Ales Ancipienka once explained, “is actually a Belarusian.

Seasonal ales were included, but not limited run ales that are no longer available for purchase.

And because he adores obscure imported ales, cycling while sloshed felt pretty familiar, too.

These were called bidding-weddings, or bid-ales, which were in the nature of "benefit" feasts.

Where Knights quaffed cordials, wines and ales, And told their little fairy tales.

What has become of all the country home-brewed, of the ales of different colleges, for example?

The Glastonbury Rental describes the mode of keeping the scot-ales in Wiltshire, in the thirteenth century.

Five ales in an hour and not a dozen words; just an ordinary Britisher who didn't know how to amuse himself in Gawd's own country.

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