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English
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Etymology
From general resemblance in form.
Noun
elephant ear (plural elephant ears)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see elephant, ear.
- A funnel cake.
- A flat, crisp, sugared pastry made of fried dough.
- Coordinate term: beavertail
- A palmier.
- Any of several plants in tribe Colocasieae or Caladieae.
- A taro plant, of genera Alocasia, Colocasia, or Xanthosoma.
- Caladium.
- Burdock (Arctium spp.).
- Any bergenia, esp. of species Bergenia crassifolia,
- Gynandrocarpa placenta
- (aviation, slang) A section of aileron that protrudes beyond the wing.
1990, Alaskan Aviation History: 1929-1930, page 714:It did not have the “elephant ears” on the ailerons like the earlier Waco Model 9.
- (aerospace, slang) A reinforcing disk on a missile.
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