Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JU'LUS, n. [Gr. ιουλος, a handful or bundle.]

1. In botany, a catkin or ament, a species of inflorescence, consisting of scales, under which stand flowers arranged along a stalk, as in hazle, birch, willow, &c. – Martyn.
2. A genus of multiped insects, of the order of Apters, of a semi-cylindrical form, with moniliform antennae, and two articulated palpi. – Encyc.