Alula

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Bastard wing. A small projection on the anterior edge of the wing on some birds.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A false or bastard wing. See under bastard.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In ornithology, the winglet, bastard wing, or ala spuria of a bird; the packet of small feathers which grows upon the so-called thumb of a bird's wing.
  • In entomology: The small membranous appendage or scale situated at the base of each wing of many dipterous insects, above the halteres or poisers.
  • A similar appendage beneath each elytron of some water-beetles. Also called alulet and cucilleron.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly
  • n. tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    squama    plumage    plume    feather   
    Variant
    alulae    bastard   
     
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