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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having lost the wings. Used of ants, termites, and other insects that shed their wings after a mating flight.
- noun A dealate insect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deprived of wings: said of the queens of ants whose wings are shed after the nuptial flight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective entomology Having lost or shed its wings, usually in the normal course of its life cycle.
Etymologies
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de- + alate
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