| ala | a hard compact kind of calcite |
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| ala | of or resembling alabaster |
| ala | of or resembling alabaster |
| ala | quick and eager |
| ala | liveliness and eagerness |
| ala | in the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie |
| ala | (in the Arabian Nights) a magical lamp from which Aladdin summoned a genie |
| ala | paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak |
| ala | the mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico |
| ala | English writer of stories for children (1882-1956) |
| ala | astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998) |
| ala | English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1914) |