a. [ad. L. ālāri-us, f. ALA wing: see -ARY.] Of or pertaining to wings or alæ.

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1658.  Sir T. Browne, Gard. Cyrus, iv. 181. The lower leaf [of leguminous plants] closely involving … the alary or wingy divisions.

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1836–9.  Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., II. 945/2. It is the first alary nerve, and is given to the future anterior pair of wings.

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1837.  Blackw. Mag., XLII. 821. Can’t I use part of the fortune in advancing my great project of alary aerostation?

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vii. 434. The alary muscles.

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