elephant ear
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elephant ear
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noun elephant ears · elephants' ear
- A funnel cake.
- A flat, crisp, sugared pastry made of fried dough.
- A palmier.
- A taro plant, of genera Alocasia, Colocasia, or Xanthosoma.
- Caladium.
- Burdock (Arctium spp.).
- Any bergenia, esp. of species Bergenia crassifolia,
- Gynandrocarpa placenta
- A section of aileron that protrudes beyond the wing. It did not have the “elephant ears” on the ailerons like the earlier Waco Model 9.
- A reinforcing disk on a missile.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see elephant, ear.
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title = {elephant ear},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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