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Definition of Elephant ear

1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elephant Ear

Literary usage of Elephant ear

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"It is altogether a massive-looking plant. elephant ear. ... The well-known elephant ear, Caladium esculentum may be also used effectively in similar ..."

2. The Menageries.: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects by James Rennie, William Ogilby, Charles Knight (1831)
"The structure of the elephant's ear has been inv tigated with great accuracy by Sir Everard Home The drum, and every other part of the organ, are mu larger ..."

3. The Popular Encyclopedia: Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences by Daniel Keyte Sandford, Thomas Thomson, Allan Cunningham (1841)
"The structure of the elephant's ear has been investigated with great accuracy by Sir Everard Home. The drum, and every other part of the organ, ..."

4. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"elephant-ear dry-land taro dryland taro (Alocasia). ... dry-land elephant ear (Alocasia macrorrhiza). ..."

5. Science of Plant Life: A High School Botany Treating of the Plant and Its by Edgar Nelson Transeau (1921)
"Dasheen and edible corms produced A short, upright, fleshy rootstock, like that of the jack-in-the-pulpit, Cala- dium (elephant's ear), or gladiolus, ..."

6. My Garden by Eden Phillpotts (1906)
"A very favourite foliage plant of mine is this elephant's ear. Some monster roots came to me from the tropics, and they have gone from strength to strength. ..."

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