auricula

British  

/ ɔːˈrɪkjʊlə /

noun

1. Also called: bear's-ear. a widely cultivated alpine primrose, Primula auricula, with leaves shaped like a bear's ear

2. another word for auricle

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Etymology

Origin of auricula

C17: from New Latin, from Latin: external ear; see _auricle

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

auricula

Thus I saw a gardener sell a gentleman a large yellow auricula, that is to say, a running away, for a curious flower, and take a great price.

From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe

We thus see that, with the exception of P. auricula, the long-styled flowers of all nine species are more fertile than the short-styled flowers, when both forms are illegitimately fertilised.

From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin

By the first standard, the fertility of the two legitimate unions of the auricula is to that of the two illegitimate unions as 100 to 80; and by the second standard as 100 to 15.

From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin

While the groundlings were crowding to see new plays by Shirley and Massinger, the editor of this volume was examining fresh varieties of auricula in "the gardens of Mr. Tradescant and Mr. Tuggie."

From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse

An increasing taste for the innocent pleasures of horticulture was manifested, by the introduction of many foreign flowers in the gardens—the tuberose, the auricula, the crown imperial, the Persian lily, the ranunculus, and African marigolds.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper

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