[ad. L. ālāt-us, f. āla a wing; cf. caudate and L. togātus: see -ATE.] Winged; having wings or side appendages resembling wings in shape or general appearance.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., 118. Alate seed-vessels; or Keys.
1763. Stukeley, Palæogr. Sacra, 73. Nainby—Lincolnshire—from an alate temple there.
1857. Henfrey, Elem. Bot., 76. Sometimes the stalk-like petiole is winged (alate), a narrow plate of the blade structure running down its margins.
1876. G. Buckton, Brit. Aphid. (Ray Soc.), I. 86. The alate females are never so plentiful as the apterous.
