Auricula meaning

ô-rĭk'yə-lə
A central European primrose (Primula auricula) having yellow flowers grouped in umbels.
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Any of numerous hybrids of this species with other primroses, widely cultivated for their showy flowers in many different colors.
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A species of primrose (Primula auricula) with leaves shaped like a bear's ear.
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(anatomy) The external part of the ear.
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(anatomy) A small conical pouch projecting from either atrium of the heart.
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(palynology) A pronounced thickening at the corner of a trilete spore, beyond the end of the laesura.
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(horticulture, plural: auriculas) The ornamental primrose Primula auricula.
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Origin of auricula

  • Latin auricle auricle
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Latin auricula
    From Wiktionary

Auricula Sentence Examples

  • Prasinidae.-Shell inequilateral, with anterior umbones and prominent anterior auricula; cardinal border arched..

  • Chlamys; anterior auricula the larger and with a byssal sinus; British.

  • 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.

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