Usually means: Winged, especially referring to insects.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. alate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. alate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alate: Vocabulary.com
  6. alate: Wordnik
  7. alate: Wiktionary
  8. alate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. alate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. alate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Alate, alate: Dictionary.com
  12. Alate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Alate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. alate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. alate: Rhymezone
  16. Alate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. alate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. alate: Free Dictionary
  19. alate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. alate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. alate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. alate: Merriam-Webster.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alate: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Alate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (alate)

adjective:  (entomology, botany) Having wings or winglike extensions or parts; winged.
noun:  A winged, reproductive form of several social insects.
adverb:  (archaic) recently; lately; of late.

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