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auriculate, ppl. a.|ɔːˈrɪkjʊlət|
[f. L. auricula auricle + -ate2.]
Furnished with auricles or ear-like appendages.
1. Bot. Of leaves: Having at the base a pair of small, blunt projections, shaped like the lower lobe of the human ear.
1713Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 54 With auriculate Leaves. 1857Henfrey Elem. Bot. §88 If a sessile leaf has a cordate base, it becomes auriculate or eared.
2. Conch. Having an ear-shaped projection or process on one or both sides of the umbones or bosses, as in certain bivalves.
1854Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 233 Producta..shell free, auriculate. 1872Nicholson Palæont. 211 The shell is auriculate, or furnished with ear-like expansions. |