A'late, Alated

a. [Lat. alatus, from ala, a wing.] ( Bot.) Winged. Applied to stems and leaf-stalks, when the edges or angles are longitudinally expanded into leaf-like borders; as in Enopordium acanthium; Lathyrus latifolius, ., and the leaf-stalk of the orange tribe, citrus, . (Anat.) Having prominent shoulder-blades, like the wings of birds. A lat'ere. [Lat., from the side.] Applied to the highest cla of envoys from the Pope, who are sent, as it were, directly from his side .