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Meaning of elephant ear | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see elephant, ear.
  2. A funnel cake.
  3. A flat, crisp, sugared pastry made of fried dough.
  4. A palmier.
  5. Any of several plants in tribe Colocasieae or Caladieae.
  6. A taro plant, of genera Alocasia, Colocasia, or Xanthosoma.
  7. Caladium.
  8. Burdock (Arctium spp.).
  9. Any bergenia, esp. of species Bergenia crassifolia,
  10. Gynandrocarpa placenta
  11. A section of aileron that protrudes beyond the wing.
    slang
  12. A reinforcing disk on a missile.
    slang

Examples

“It did not have the “elephant ears” on the ailerons like the earlier Waco Model 9.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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