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4 dictionary results for: Alula
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al·u·la       [al-yuh-luh] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -lae       [-lee] Pronunciation Key.
1.Also called bastard wing, spurious wing. the group of three to six small, rather stiff feathers growing on the first digit, pollex, or thumb of a bird's wing.
2.a membranous lobe at the base of each wing of a dipterous insect.

[Origin: 1765–75; < NL, equiv. to L āl(a) wing + -ula -ule]

al·u·lar, adjective
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al·u·la       (āl'yə-lə)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. al·u·lae (-lē')
A small joint in the middle of a bird's wing, homologous with the thumb and bearing three or four quill-like feathers. Also called bastard wing, spurious wing.


[New Latin, diminutive of Latin āla, wing.]

al'u·lar (-lər) adj.
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alula

noun
1. scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly 
2. tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing [syn: bastard wing

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Alula

Al"u*la\, n. [NL., dim. of L. ala a wing.] (Zo["o]l.) A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

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