Alate

Alate

Alate

A winged reproductive caste from a social insect colony in its winged form

Alate (Latin ālātus, from āla (“wing”)) is an adjective and noun used in entomology and botany to refer to something that has wings or winglike structures.[1]

In botany

Euonymus alatus has wing-like structures on the stems

In botany "alate" refers to winglike structures on some seeds that use wind dispersal. It is also used to describe flattened ridges which run longtitudianally on stems.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Collins Dictionary (Seventh ed.). Collins. 2008. p. 34. ISBN 9780007261123.
  2. [2]
    Harrison, Lorraine (2012). Latin for Gardeners. Royal Horticultural Society. p. 20. ISBN 9781845337315.
  • The dictionary definition of alate at Wiktionary
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