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‖ auricula|ɔːˈrɪkjʊlə|
[L.: see auricle.]
1. = auricle 1.
1691Ray Creation ii. (1701) 271 The outward ear or Auricula.
2. (See quot.)
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. An. ix. 574 In the Echinoida, ambulacral plates of the oral margin of the corona are produced into five perpendicular perforated processes, which arch over the ambulacra and are called the auriculæ.
3. Bot. (Formerly also auriculus.) A species of Primula, also called Bear's-ear, named from the shape of its leaves; formerly a great favourite with flower-fanciers, producing under cultivation trusses of many blooms, the corollas often powdered with white or grey.
1655Antheologia 4 Marigolds, Wall-flowers, Auriculusses. 1713Flying-Post 20 Oct., The finest Collection of Aurickelouses that are in England. 1728Thomson Spring 533 Auriculas, enrich'd With shining meal o'er all their velvet leaves. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 151 Tulips tall-stemmed and paunced auriculas rise.
4. A genus of pulmoniferous molluscs, found chiefly in brackish swamps in the tropics.
1843in W. Humble Dict. Geol. 1856Woodward Fossil Shells 11 The auriculas live on the sea-shore, or in salt marshes. |