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Definition of Ear-shaped
1. Adjective. Having a shape resembling an ear.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ear-shaped
Literary usage of Ear-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... glabrous throughout, dark green and shining above, glaucous beneath, the young
drying black; stipules large, ear-shaped ..."
2. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"... becoming (334) cordate, or heart-shaped, an ovate outline with a sinus or
re-entering angle at base; (331) auriculate, with ear-shaped lobes at base; ..."
3. A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands by William Turton (1819)
"... hi its elongated and ear-shaped form : length three quarters of an inch ;
breadth half an inch. Western coasts, Dublin bay, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The Left Auricle occupies the left part of tbe the heart, and, like the right
auricle, consista of & sinus venosas and an ear-shaped auricula. ..."
5. An Illustrated Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology: Contained in His by Edmund A. Crouch (1827)
"Shell ear-shaped, the aperture much dilated, the margins disunited, no columella,
no operculum ... Shell ear-shaped, mostly flattened; the spire very short, ..."
6. A Manual of the Mollusca: Being a Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate (1880)
"Shell ear-shaped, with a small flat spire ; aperture very wide, iridescent ;
exterior striated, dull ; outer angle perforated by a series of holes, ..."
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