adjective

• Having one or more structures shaped like an ear or earlobe.

  ‘Under favorable conditions each rosette produces one flowering stem up to 3 meters in height, with numerous auriculate clasping leaves.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The leaves are distinctive among our cardamines in having auriculate leaf bases.’
  • ‘The Famatina specimens are assigned herein to a new species on the basis of their transverse outline and long, auriculate cardinal extremities.’