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Botany.
a suffix of names of orders: Cycadales.
Origin:
< L pl. of -ālis -al 1

ale

  [eyl]
–noun
1. a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
2. British. beer.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME; OE (e)alu (gen. ealoth); c. OS alo-, MD ale, ael, ON ǫl; Lith alùs, OCS olŭ; Finnish, Estonian olut; areal word of North Europe
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ale   (āl)   
n.  
  1. A fermented alcoholic beverage containing malt and hops, similar to but heavier than beer.
  2. A serving of this beverage.

[Middle English, from Old English ealu, alu; see alu- in Indo-European roots.]
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