[L.: see AURICLE.]
1. = AURICLE 1.
1691. Ray, Creation, II. (1701), 271. The outward ear or Auricula.
2. (See quot.)
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., ix. 574. In the Echinoida, ambulacral plates of the oral margin of the corona are produced into five perpendicular perforated processes, which arch over the ambulacra and are called the auriculæ.
3. Bot. (Formerly also auriculus.) A species of Primula, also called Bear’s-ear, named from the shape of its leaves; formerly a great favorite with flower-fanciers, producing under cultivation trusses of many blooms, the corollas often powdered with white or grey.
1655. Antheologia, 4. Marigolds, Wall-flowers, Auriculusses.
1713. Flying-Post, 20 Oct. The finest Collection of Aurickelouses that are in England.
1728. Thomson, Spring, 533. Auriculas, enrich’d With shining meal o’er all their velvet leaves.
1807. Crabbe, Par. Reg., I. 151. Tulips tall-stemmed and paunced auriculas rise.
4. A genus of pulmoniferous mollusks, found chiefly in brackish swamps in the tropics.
1843. in Humble, Dict. Geol.
1856. Woodward, Fossil Shells, 11. The auriculas live on the sea-shore, or in salt marshes.
