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Definition of Alations
1. alation [n] - See also: alation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alations
Literary usage of Alations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1908)
"... The upper organ with such broad alations as to leave in the middle behind, a
broad, deep, notch, the bottom of which is squarely cut ..."
2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1905)
"4 shows the alations on both sides of the tooth. Fig. 3 has the alations restored
in outline. Fig. 5 shows the characteristic punctation of the teeth. FIG. ..."
3. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1906)
"... ends flattened, forming alations, probably with entire rounded margins. ...
high and rounded, oh their posterior sides graduating; into the alations, ..."
4. Contributions by Chicago (Ill.). University. Walker Museum of Paleontology (1905)
"4 shows the alations on both sides of the tooth. Fig. 3 has the alations restored
in outline. Fig. 5 shows the characteristic punctation of the teeth. FIG. ..."
5. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"... alations of which they never thought ol' making a mystery. This :s whai we
find in an old work on alchemists—a satire, moreover— of 1820, written at the ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1907)
"Paul II had been the bitter lemy of Lorenzo de' Medici ; but when the Franciscan
lonk, Francesco della Rovere, became Sixtus IV, friendly alations were ..."
7. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"... alations f (both ears are broken in the speci- m<y\ before me). Locality,
Eocene, Alabama. ..."
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