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Alar vs Apar - What's the difference?

alar | apar |

As nouns the difference between alar and apar

is that alar is a growth-regulating chemical sprayed on fruit trees; entire crop can be harvested at one time; daminozide while apar is the three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes matacus

As an adjective alar

is of or relating to the armpit; axillary.

alar

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (anatomy) of or relating to the armpit; axillary.
  • Having, resembling, or composed of wings or alae.
  • Derived terms

    * alar canal * alar chest * alar ligaments * alar foramen * greater alar cartilage * lesser alar cartilage

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A growth-regulating chemical sprayed on fruit trees; entire crop can be harvested at one time; daminozide.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    apar

    English

    (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes matacus
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, title=The Royal Natural History, page=224, author=Richard Lydekker, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=AGsjAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA224
  • , passage=The apar is mainly diurnal in its habits; and trusts for defence to its power of rolling itself into a ball, not dwelling in burrows like the members of the other genera.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Ernest Ingersoll, title=The Life of Animals: The Mammals, page=478, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=rOg3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA478
  • , passage=The apars are noted, indeed, for their lively and restless manners.}}

    See also

    * (Southern Three-Banded Armadillo)

    Anagrams

    * ----