#plural

• Faded blue rags — A regional collective term, often used with a peiorative or ironic connotation, to denote a pile of faded, poor-quality blue objects, clothes, fabrics, or spots degraded by time; unevenly dyed garments or rags. In certain local dialects, the word also refers to the totality of parasitic paint marks left on walls or furniture pieces following careless whitewashing.
• Of the white one — Genitive-dative singular form, definite or indefinite, for the feminine color adjective 'albă' or for the proper noun 'Alba' (in regional or archaic structures like 'Țara Albei'); it expresses a relationship of possession, belonging, or attribution related to an entity of a white, immaculate, or pale color. In popular onomastics, it can also represent a regional plural form for 'albeu', denoting small or whitish fish.
• White — To make something white, to dye, wash, or clean intensely a surface or a canvas to restore its immaculate color; to acquire gray hairs due to old age or stress. As an adjective, it represents the masculine plural form for 'alb' (white). As a plural masculine noun (substantivized), it historically denotes the members of the counter-revolutionary forces in the Russian Civil War, in opposition to 'the reds'.
• Cornflowers — An old popular or regional name used in the plural for light-colored, whitish, or pale field flowers, or an isolated regional contamination for the plant known as cornflowers.
• Albuminones — A name attributed in older biochemical literature to intermediate proteinaceous products, similar to peptones, resulting during the initial phases of the hydrolysis or enzymatic digestion of albumins.
• Whitish — Having a subtle shade of white; slightly whitish, pale, or faded; tiny white. It represents the masculine plural form of the chromatic and diminutive adjective 'albuț', used in popular or regional registers to describe a group of beings, objects, or surfaces displaying light-colored reflections.
• Alcaldes — Magistrates, mayors, or high-ranking judicial and administrative officials in medieval Spain and its former colonies in Latin America. It represents the plural form of the noun 'alcade' (or 'alcalde'), a term utilized in world historiography to denote the body of local governors of settlements during the Hispanic imperial period.
• Elks — A rare regional name utilized historically in certain northern dialects as the plural form of 'alcer' (elk/moose); very large-sized herbivorous mammals of the cervid family (Alces alces) adapted to cold forested areas, characterized by the massive palmate antlers borne by the males.
• Alcohols — An extensive class of organic compounds containing one or more hydroxyl (-OH) functional groups bound directly to sp3 hybridized carbon atoms. This category includes a broad range of substances with diverse properties, from simple volatile molecules like methanol and ethanol to complex polyhydroxyl structures, heavily utilized in chemical synthesis, pharmacy, and industry.
• Bold characters — The plural form for feminine nouns and adjectives in the typographic field; it refers either to bold characters (aldine letters) or to the entirety of the rare and precious books issued from Aldo Manuzio's printing house in Venice, prized by collectors for outstanding paper quality, font clarity, and philological rigor.
• Walkways — The plural form of the feminine noun alee; narrow traffic paths specially built within parks, public gardens, cemeteries, or urban residential areas, intended primarily for pedestrian use. Structurally, these spaces are frequently paved, graveled, or asphalted and symmetrically bordered by trees, hedges, or decorative flower beds to guide strolling.
• Alleles — 1. The plural form of the feminine noun alelă; the totality of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a specific chromosomal locus. 2. A regional, shortened, or familiar variant for the feminine plural demonstrative pronoun of distance 'acelea' (or 'acele'), used colloquially to indicate objects or persons located at a distance.
• The alleles — The definite articulate plural form of the feminine noun alelă; it specifically and directly defines the alternative variants of the same gene occupying a homologous chromosomal locus, viewed as clearly defined objects of study within a diploid organism or a biological population.
• Alems — The plural form of the neuter noun alem; ornamental metal finials, flagpole toppers, or traditional decorations shaped like crescents, spears, or spheres, historically mounted atop military banners or the domes of religious buildings in the Ottoman Empire. Structurally, these pieces held a major symbolic and heraldic role in defining religious or martial authority.
• Lazily — 1. Slowly, without rushing, lazily, gently, or indolently; manifesting an obvious lack of energy or desire to work. 2. The unarticulated plural form of the feminine noun alenă (a class of unsaturated hydrocarbons with cumulated double bonds). Structurally, as an adverb, the word serves to modify verbs of motion or state to imbue them with a nuance of leisure, sluggishness, or indolence.
• Alates — A specialized term used in entomology or biology to designate insects that are in their adult, winged, and sexually mature stage, particularly regarding ant or termite species that develop wings exclusively for the nuptial mating flight. It is a Romanian adaptation of the international scientific concept.
• Ruderal plants — A specialized term used in botany and ecology to designate ruderal plants, weeds, or pioneer vegetal species that grow on degraded lands, roadsides, debris, or anthropized soils deeply modified by human activity. These organisms exhibit outstanding resilience and the ability to rapidly colonize unstable habitats.
• The alexias — The definite articulated feminine plural form of the noun alexia, designating collectively and specifically all the types, manifestations, or identified clinical cases of loss of the ability to read and comprehend written text due to a cortical brain lesion. In medical literature, the term individualizes the forms of word blindness studied within a specific patient group or nosological framework.
• Supply — The act of feeding or supplying and its result; the structural process of providing food, fuel, energy, or raw materials needed for an organism or technical system to function. From a grammatical point of view, it also represents the plural form (masculine/feminine) of the adjective alimentar.
• Trifles — A regional and colloquial term used in eastern and southern Romania to designate small, worthless things, trifles, or knick-knacks; by extension, it can be structurally associated with a state of uproar, noise, or domestic disorder, being etymologically related to variants like hălămujdie or lămujde. In the folkloric register, it plastically renders elements of daily life in old communities.