Pl. -a. Nat. Hist. [L.; see ADMINICLE.]
1. Entom. In pl. Kirby’s name for the short spines or teeth on the abdominal segments of certain insects, pupæ or grubs, whereby they make their way through any substance in which they burrow.
1815. Kirby & Spence, Entom., III. (1826), 255. The adminicula or short spines … with which the dorsal segments of the abdomen of some pupæ are armed.
† 2. Bot. Scopuli’s name for all those organs, such as tendrils, with which plants cling to any support, called by Linnæus fulcra. Obs.
