Definition of Auricularia

1. Noun. Type genus of the Auriculariaceae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Auricularia
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Auriculariaceae, Family Auriculariaceae
Member holonyms: Auricularia Auricula, Ear Fungus, Jew's-ear, Jew's-ears

Definition of Auricularia

1. n. pl. A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.

Definition of Auricularia

1. Noun. (zoology) A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Auricularia

1. A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. Origin: Neut. Pl, fr. LL. Auricularis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auricularia

auricular muscle
auricular muscles
auricular notch
auricular point
auricular reflex
auricular standstill
auricular surface of ilium
auricular surface of sacrum
auricular systole
auricular tachycardia
auricular triangle
auricular tubercle
auricular vein
auricular veins
auriculare
auricularia (current term)
auricularly
auriculars
auriculas
auriculate
auriculated
auriculo-
auriculo-infraorbital plane
auriculoacupuncture
auriculocranial
auriculopalpebral reflex
auriculopressor reflex
auriculotemporal
auriculotemporal nerve
auriculotemporal nerve syndrome

Literary usage of Auricularia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Textbook of Mycology by George Massee (1892)
"auricularia mesenterica. Fries, (figs. 1 and 2, p. 56.) Pilei resupinate, reflexed above, velvety, ... auricularia lobata. Sommerf. Pileus effuso-reflexed ..."

2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1868)
"Deshayes, in a footnote to the description of 0. auricularia, Lam., remarks that D'Orbigny has confounded his shell with Lamarck's species, and considers ..."

3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1907)
"The antenna? of F. auricularia usually have 14 segments ; the iae of F. ... The pronotum of F. auricularia has the posterior margin gen *ly rounded ; in F. ..."

4. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1895)
"MULLER as the auricularia. Its derivation from the fundamental form of the Echinoderm larva is illustrated by the following diagram1 (Fig. ..."

5. Bibliographical Index of North American Fungi by William Gilson Farlow (1905)
"1896 show the structure of auricularia as already stated by Patouillard, 1887. ... auricularia Vespertilio, Fr. Fr. Nova Acta R. Soc. Sci. Upsal. ..."

6. Rad (1870)
"... auricularia L. ; N. ... larius Drap. var. ; B. Limnaea auricularia Drap. Sp. 54, f. 1131 — 1132. ..."

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