Crossword-Solution: ALULA 5 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Alula n. A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

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ALULA anagram ALALU

We have 36 clues for the answer “ALULA”

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Group of wing feathers 1 answer
wing false 1 answer
scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly 1 answer
calypter 1 answer
Wing tip 1 answer
WING tuft 1 answer
WING of bastard 1 answer
Thumblike wing part 1 answer
Part of a bird's wing: Zool. 1 answer
Gene Vincent's "Be-Bop-__" 1 answer
False wing, in birds. 1 answer
False wing 1 answer
DIPTERA lobe of wing 1 answer
Bird's abnormal wing 1 answer
"Be-Bop-__" (1956 hit) 1 answer
"Be-Bop-__": Gene Vincent hit 1 answer
"Be-Bop-___" (golden oldie) 1 answer
1956 song, "Be-Bop-__" 1 answer
Avian "thumb" 1 answer
Bastard wing 1 answer
Bastard wing of birds 1 answer
Bebop follower of the 1950s? 1 answer
Part of a bird's wing 2 answers
Spurious wing 2 answers
Squama 2 answers
Wing feathers 2 answers
Wing of sorts 2 answers
Bird wing 2 answers
Bird's wing 2 answers
tuft of feathers 2 answers
Wing of a sort 3 answers
"Be-Bop-__" 3 answers
WING part 5 answers
city-in-saudi-arabia 5 answers
WINGLIKE part 5 answers
lobe 15 answers
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Sentences with ALULA (5)

ALULA AUSTRALIS, ζ _Ursæ Majoris_ The "northern and southern wing." Situated in the Southern hind foot of the Great Bear.
A Field Book of the Stars William Tyler Olcott 2007
Alulet: Diptera: the lobe at basal posterior part of wing; = alar appendage; posterior lobe: and has been used as = alula.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith 2007
Axillary incision: Diptera; an incision on inner margin of wing, near base, which separates the alula from the main part.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith 2007
Axillary lobe: the sclerite covering the base of the wing in Diptera; see also alula and posterior lobe.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith 2007
Squama: in Odonata, the sclerite that bears the palpus of both maxilla and labium: the scale-like first abdominal segment of some ants: a scale-like appendage covering the base of primaries in Lepidoptera, and so = patagium; q.v.: a small scale above the halteres in Diptera: in this order Packard uses squama for the lobed scale and restricts alula to the lobe-like appendage: Osten-Sacken uses squama for the posterior scale alone and antisquama for the anterior.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith 2007

Quotes with ALULA (1)

It was Ebon's turn now, and he stepped forward and gave the pegasus' great clarion neigh -- far more like a trumpet than a horse's neigh; hollow bones are wonderful for resonance -- and swept his wings forward to touch, or almost touch, his alula-hands to her temples before he gave his own speech, in the half-humming, half-whuffling syllables the pegasi made when they spoke aloud, only she could understand what he was saying in silent speech. The words were just as stiff and …
Robin McKinley Pegasus
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 37 times in crossword archives (1956–2013).