Auricle

• Title

  Auricle

• Definition

  An ear-shaped appendage; for example, on the lip of an orchid or at the apex of the leaf sheath of Poaceae; also used for appendices not so ear-shaped, for example the appendices arising at the junction between the claw and the blade of clawed petals.

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