Alula

Viki remembers the mysterious figure in the dark calling her 'alula' and, as she does some research, the first of a series of startling events that will change her life forever unfold. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the alula opened properly and I decided I must have been overcontrolling, easy to do with Storer-Gulls; they're extremely maneuverable. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1967)

While it was cycling I opened my left wing and thumbed the alula control -- I had noticed a tendency to sideslip the last time I was airborne. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1967)

They're lovely -- titanalloy struts as light and strong as bird bones, tension-compensated wrist-pinion and shoulder joints, natural action in the alula slots, and automatic flap action in stalling. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1967)

Two years ago a boy who had just graduated from orange wings tried it ... knocked off his left alula and primaries on a strut -- went fluttering and spinning down two thousand feet and crashed. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1967)

Lobulus: the partly separated portion of the wings of some flies and of secondaries in some Hymenoptera: also used as = alula; q.v. Lobus: of maxilla = galea; q.v. Locomotion: organs of, are legs and wings. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Axillary lobe: the sclerite covering the base of the wing in Diptera; see also alula and posterior lobe. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Alulet: Diptera: the lobe at basal posterior part of wing; = alar appendage; posterior lobe: and has been used as = alula. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Calypter: Diptera; the alula or squama when it covers the haltere. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Aileron: the scale covering the base of primaries in some insects; see tegulae in Diptera = alula and squama, q.v. Air-sacs or vesicles: pouch-like expansions of tracheal tubes in heavy insects, capable of inflation and supposed to lessen specific gravity. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Axillary excision: = a. incision, q.v. Axillary incision: Diptera; an incision on inner margin of wing, near base, which separates the alula from the main part. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

The alula, used medicinally by ancient Hawaiians to treat infections, now is grown in Limahuli and its sister McBryde Garden and even sold through some nurseries, a botanical testament to Hawaii's past. ❋ Unknown (2011)

One of Limahuli's conservation success stories is the alula, an ungainly plant that looks like a cabbage on a big stick. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A prominent alula-like clawed digit (it is flanged with another membrane) allows the animal to climb and cling; it looks similar to the large thumb present in megabats. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The hindlimbs also have a prominent, alula-like, clawed digit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All three of its fingers had small curved claws and - as in modern birds and some other feathered maniraptorans - the thumb supported an alula. ❋ Darren Naish [email protected] (2010)

Again, there's an alula-like digit with a huge, curved claw. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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