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say it: AY-lahr
alar is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to the axil". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a chemical sprayed on fruit trees to regulate their growth so the entire crop can be harvested at one time
trademark
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for alar come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.