Auricula

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A central European primrose (Primula auricula) having large yellow flowers grouped in umbels. Also called bear's ear.
  • n. Any of numerous hybrids of this species with other primroses.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The external part of the ear
  • n. A small conical pouch projecting from either atrium of the heart
  • n. A pronounced thickening at the corner of a trilete spore, beyond the end of the laesura
  • n. The ornamental primrose Primula auricula
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.
  • n.
  • n. A species of Hirneola (Hirneola auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judæ, or Jew's-ear.
  • n.
  • n. A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish.
  • n. One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, a garden flower derived from the yellow Primula Auricula, found native in the Swiss Alps, and sometimes called bear's-ear from the shape of its leaves.
  • n. Same as auricle
  • n. [capitalized] [NL.] In zoology, a genus of phytophagous or plant-eating pulmonate gastropods, typical of the family Auriculidæ. A. judæ and A. midæ are examples. They are known as ear-shells.
  • n. [NL.] In echinoderms, one of the perforated processes into which the ambulacral and sometimes the interambulacral plates are produced, and which arch over the interior of the ambulacra, as in the typical echini, or sea-urchins. See cut under Echinoidea.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart
  • n. yellow-flowered primrose native to Alps; commonly cultivated
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pocket    pouch    primrose    Primula   
    Variant
    auriculae    bear's-ear    auricula judæ    jew's-ear   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    auricle    pinna    atrial appendage    auricular appendix    valva   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    o'erhung    sunsuit    scagliola    tarboosh    eidolon   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.