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单词 auricle
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auriclen.

/ˈɔːrɪk(ə)l/
Etymology: < Latin auricula external ear, ear-lap, diminutive of auris ear: compare French auricule.
1.
a. The external ear of animals. Formerly sometimes restricted to the lower lobe or ‘lap’ of the human ear.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [noun] > flap or lobe
lapc1000
ear-lapOE
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lippet1598
lug1602
lappet1609
handle1615
libbet1627
auricle1650
flip-flop1661
pinna1682
helix1684
lobe1719
earlobea1785
ear flap1810
leaf1819
shell1831
pavilion1842
ear bud1953
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [noun]
earOE
listc1380
sousea1658
concha1683
auricula1691
wattle1699
listener1821
conch1831
earhole1843
tab1866
auricle1874
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis viii. 96 A certain Nation whose Auricles are so great that they hang down to their shoulders.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. §5 ⁋64 The Auricle and Meatus Auditorius are cartilaginous.
1874 D. B. St. J. Roosa Dis. Ear 53 The auricle..has as its functions the reception, reflection, and condensation of the waves of sound.
b. transferred. An ‘ear’ or ear-hole.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > for whispering through
whispering-hole1663
auricle1859
1859 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 300 The penitent..poured his sins through a perforated auricle into this unseen receptacle.
2. A process shaped liked the lower lobe or ‘lap’ of the human ear; a lobe; esp. in Botany and Conchology. (Cf. auriculate adj.)
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell > part of
auricle1665
heel1673
lip1681
mouth1681
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antihelix1721
canal1734
columella1755
vesture1755
body whirl1776
fent1776
pillar1776
pillar-lip1776
septum1786
aperture1794
body whorl1807
costa1812
seam1816
spine1822
umbo1822
varix1822
peristome1828
summit1828
nucleus1833
concameration1835
lunula1835
nympha1836
nymph1839
lunule1842
peritreme1848
body chamber1851
axis1866
umbone1867
liration1904
the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > leaflet
lacinia1668
label1672
pinna1703
label1707
pinnula1707
ala1712
lobe1731
pinnule1751
lobe-leaf1758
leafit1761
little leaf1775
wing1776
foliole1785
leaflet1811
lobelet1850
auricle1861
lobule1880
pinnulet1881
pointrel1881
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 87 A stone..having three Auricles or crisped Angles.
1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) viii. 242 The auricles are the processes on each side of the umbones.
1861 P. Lankester Wild Flowers 74 The upper leaves..embracing the stem by pointed auricles.
3. Name of the two upper cavities of the heart, which, in mammals, birds, and reptiles, receive blood from the veins and lungs respectively. (Fishes have only one auricle.)
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > heart > [noun] > auricle
eara1398
deaf-ear1615
earlet1659
auricle1664
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 40 In this Cartilaginous Pericardium [of the Lamprey]..is likewise the Auricle co-included.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. §7 ⁋74 The contraction of the Auricle of the Heart.
1831 W. Youatt Horse x. 171 Called auricles, from their supposed resemblance to a dog's ear.
4. A kind of ear-trumpet for the deaf.
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the world > health and disease > healing > audiology or audiometry > [noun] > aids to defective hearing
trunk1546
otacousticon1615
otacoustic1617
ear-spectacle1626
sarbacane1644
acoustic1659
acousticon1660
hearing-trumpet1725
ear trumpet1731
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otophone1839
auricle1864
audiphone1880
osteophone1892
microphonograph1897
hearing aid1922
deaf-aid1934
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Mansfield).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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