auriculate
/ɔːˈrɪkjʊlət
/adjective chiefly Botany & Zoology
Having one or more structures shaped like an ear or ear lobe.Under favorable conditions each rosette produces one flowering stem up to 3 meters in height, with numerous auriculate clasping leaves....
- The leaves are distinctive among our cardamines in having auriculate leaf bases.
- The Famatina specimens are assigned herein to a new species on the basis of their transverse outline and long, auriculate cardinal extremities.
Origin
Early 18th century: from Latin auricula 'external part of the ear' (diminutive of auris 'ear') + -ate2.
- on the nose
- on the (off) chance
- on the one (or the other) hand
- on the order of
- on the (or its) way
- on the (or one's) way
- on the (or one's) way out
- on the other hand
- on the outer
- on the outside
- on the outside looking in
- on the part of (or on my, their, etc., part)
- on the phone
- on the pig's back
- on the plus side
- on the port (or starboard) tack
- on the prod
- on the prowl
- on the quiet
- on the rack
- on the rails
- on the rebound
- on the right (or wrong) track
- on the right side of
- on the rise