alula

Other forms of alula

plural

alulae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alula

What does alula mean?

alula means "scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alula?

alula has 3 syllables: a-lu-la. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for alula?

Close synonyms include calypter, bastard wing, spurious wing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alula a common word?

alula is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.