auriculan.
/ɔːˈrɪkjʊlə/ 1. = auricle n. 1.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [noun]
earOE
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earhole1843
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auricle1874
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 185 The outward Ear or Auricula.
2. (See quot. 1877.)
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1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals 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. Botany. (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.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > primrose and allied flowers > primrose or auricula
primrosea1425
primula1526
petty mullein1578
bear's ear1597
bear's ear sanicle1597
bird's eye1597
mountain cowslip1597
rock rose1597
French cowslip1629
auricula1655
polyanthusa1678
polyanth1757
Scotch primrose1777
plumrose1787
plumrock1789
bird's eye primrose1796
Chinese primrose1825
dusty miller1825
Jack-in-the-box1850
Jack in the green1875
polyanthus primrose1882
boar's-ears-
1655 Antheologia 4 Marigolds, Wall-flowers, Auriculusses.
1713 Flying-Post 20 Oct. The finest Collection of Aurickelouses that are in England.
1728 J. Thomson Spring 27 Anemonies, Auriculas, a Tribe Peculiar powder'd with a shining Sand.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 40 Tulips tall-stemm'd and pounc'd Auricula's rise.
4. A genus of pulmoniferous molluscs, found chiefly in brackish swamps in the tropics.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Auriculidae > member of genus Auricula
auricula1843
1843 in W. Humble Dict. Geol.
1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 11 The auriculas live on the sea-shore, or in salt-marshes.
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