noun
pl. -·las or -·lae·- a species of primrose (Primula auricula) with leaves shaped like a bear's ear
- auricle
Origin of auricula
ModL: see auricleauricula
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auricula
noun
pl. au·ric·u·las, or auricula- A central European primrose (Primula auricula) having yellow flowers grouped in umbels.
- Any of numerous hybrids of this species with other primroses, widely cultivated for their showy flowers in many different colors.
Origin of auricula
Latin auricle ; see auricle .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Sentence Examples
- Prasinidae.-Shell inequilateral, with anterior umbones and prominent anterior auricula; cardinal border arched..
- Similar phenomenon is seen in two r widely separated genera of flowering plants: Primula Auricula and Gunnera (Halorageae).
- The nautiloid shell In Planorbis and in Auricula (Pulmonata, formed on the larva allied to Limnaeus) the olfactory organ is being cast, and a new on the left side and receives its nerve from shell of a different form the left visceral:ganglion.
- Auricula is confined to the East Indies and Peru.
- Chlamys; anterior auricula the larger and with a byssal sinus; British.
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