Crossword-Solution: ALULA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alula | n. | A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ALULA | anagram | ALALU |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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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.
Alulet: Diptera: the lobe at basal posterior part of wing; = alar appendage; posterior lobe: and has been used as = alula.
Axillary incision: Diptera; an incision on inner margin of wing, near base, which separates the alula from the main part.
Axillary lobe: the sclerite covering the base of the wing in Diptera; see also alula and posterior lobe.
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.
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 …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 37 times in crossword archives (1956–2013).