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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

날개가 있는

Pronunciation / Transliteration: nalgaega inneun

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Alate/ˈeɪ.leɪt/
adjectivenounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"날개가 있는 개미들이 무리를 지어 날아간다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Having wings or wing-like expansions; specifically applied to insects or seeds.

    "During the mating season, alate termites emerge in large numbers to establish new colonies."
As noun
  1. 1

    A winged form of an insect, especially an ant or termite, capable of flight.

    "The colony produced numerous alates before the autumn rains began."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin adjective 'alātus', meaning 'winged', which itself comes from 'ala', meaning 'wing'. The term entered the English language in the early 19th century primarily as a biological and entomological descriptor for winged insects or botanical structures.

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