sb. and a. [EAR sb.1] a. sb. A gastropod resembling, or having some part resembling, a white ear; e.g., one of the family Vanicoridæ, having a white-ribbed shell with a wide opening. b. adj. White-eared.

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1815.  Burrow, Elem. Conchol., 204. Helix Halitoidea, White-ear Snail; Venus’s Ear.

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1826.  Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., XIII. II. 57. White-Ear Owl.

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1854.  T. Adams, etc., Man. Nat. Hist., 133. White-Ears (Vanicoridæ).

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  So White-eared a., having white ears; (of a bird) having white feathers around the ears.

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1783.  Latham, Gen. Syn. Birds, II. I. 84. White-Eared Thr[ush].

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