eardrops
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
Around her neck is a necklace of gold richly set,—and she has magnificent golden armlets and pearl eardrops.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns
Dolores loved these, her only valuable trinkets, and wore them constantly: she even slept in her pretty eardrops.
From Zoe; Or, Some Day A Novel by Leonard, May
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
The juice of the leaves mixed with cocoanut oil is used in the form of eardrops in suppurative otitis.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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