elephant ear
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From general resemblance in form
Noun
elephant ear (plural elephant ears)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see elephant, ear.
- A flat, crisp, sugared pastry (similar to funnel cake).
- Any of several plants in tribe Colocasieae or Caladieae.
- A taro plant, of genera Alocasia, Colocasia, or Xanthosoma.
- Caladium.
- Burdock (Arctium spp.).
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Derived terms
- elephant-ear fern (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 780: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
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