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Auriculas

Auricula \Au*ric"u*la\, n.; pl. L. Auricul[ae], E. Auriculas. [L. auricula. See Auricle.]

  1. (Bot.)

    1. A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.

    2. (b) A species of Hirneola ( Hirneola auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Jud[ae], or Jew's-ear.
      --P. Cyc.

  2. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish.

    2. One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

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auriculas

n. (plural of auricula English)

Usage examples of "auriculas".

One could walk all round, seeing little front gardens with auriculas and saxifrage in the shadow of the bottom block, sweet-williams and pinks in the sunny top block.

Her throat was bare, and in her bosom she had a beautiful nosegay of tulips, roses, anemones, ranunculuses, hyacinths and auriculas.

He hung the walls and the ceiling with an extraordinary stuff which he had in the piece, and which he believed to be from Utrecht, a satin background with golden immortelles, and velevt auriculas.

She had the bright eyes of a country woman, an honest gaze, a cheerful tone, and chestnut hair held in place by a bonnet cap under a green bonnet decked with a shabby bunch of auriculas.

Suddenly Monsieur de Valois's eyes lighted on Madame Granson, arrayed in her green hat with bunches of auriculas, and beaming with evident joy.

Where rich carnations, pinks with purple eyes, Proud hyacinths, the least some florist’s prize, Tulips tall-stemm’d and pounced auriculas rise.