earless
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a word derived from
ear.
earnounthe organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
Example Sentences
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He chewed the ears off a squeaky pink stuffed rabbit and now parades around the house with its earless body whenever he’s at his friskiest.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2021
More than a third of the reptiles on the list—including Borneo’s earless monitor lizard and Madagascar’s Uroplatus finaritra, a leaf-tailed gecko—have not been evaluated for their conservation status.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 29, 2020
Sightless, earless and adrift in the open ocean, coral larvae seek to settle on tropical reefs by swimming toward the throbs of muttering fish and snapping-shrimp claws.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2012
However, Japanese media outlets have hailed the birth of an earless rabbit allegedly born near the damaged Fukushima nuclear facility as evidence of fearsome side effects of the catastrophe.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2011
I tried to shrug off a dark feeling I was getting and recapture the warm sense of justice: Sarah and Daniel, earless too.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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