‖ auricula
(ɔːˈrɪkjʊlə)
[L.: see auricle.]
1. = auricle 1.
| 1691 Ray Creation ii. (1701) 271 The outward ear or Auricula. |
2. (See quot.)
| 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. An. ix. 574 In the Echinoida, ambulacral plates of the oral margin of the corona are produced into five perpendicular perforated processes, which arch over the ambulacra and are called the auriculæ. |
3. Bot. (Formerly also auriculus.) A species of Primula, also called Bear's-ear, named from the shape of its leaves; formerly a great favourite with flower-fanciers, producing under cultivation trusses of many blooms, the corollas often powdered with white or grey.
| 1655 Antheologia 4 Marigolds, Wall-flowers, Auriculusses. 1713 Flying-Post 20 Oct., The finest Collection of Aurickelouses that are in England. 1728 Thomson Spring 533 Auriculas, enrich'd With shining meal o'er all their velvet leaves. 1807 Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 151 Tulips tall-stemmed and paunced auriculas rise. |
4. A genus of pulmoniferous molluscs, found chiefly in brackish swamps in the tropics.
| 1843 in W. Humble Dict. Geol. 1856 Woodward Fossil Shells 11 The auriculas live on the sea-shore, or in salt marshes. |