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eardrops

British  
/ ˈɪəˌdrɒps /

plural noun

  1. liquid medication for inserting into the external ear

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Becker anticipates poodle-dog is now growing, along with other so-called fire followers, like fire poppies, golden eardrops and whispering bells.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2025

The handsome scarlet berries, like old-fashioned coral eardrops, protruding from among the thorns, are easily picked out, and they very naturally find their way to one's mouth.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Whereupon he sang out at the top of his voice- "Bones made up his dais, with mud it's plastered o'er, Old shoes are his eardrops; a jackal, nothing more!"

From The Junior Classics — Volume 1 by Patten, William

T'want only yisterday Squire Mullins'es cow hed to eat up the top of my pennyroyal geranium and trod down my eardrops and lady-slippers, and now they ain't anything left but bachelor's-buttons that's worth looking at.

From The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories by Various

He remembered that she wore no jewellery, except sparkling blue sapphire eardrops.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

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