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Elephant Ear

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Noun

1. alocasia, elephant ear, elephant's ear

any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Elephant Ear

see synonyms of elephant ear
noun
1. 
any aroid plant of the genus Colocasia, of tropical Asia and Polynesia, having very large heart-shaped leaves: grown for ornament and for their edible tubers
See also taro
2. 
any of various cultivated begonias with large showy leaves

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Elephant Ear

see synonyms of elephant ear
noun
1. 
any of several plants (genus Colocasia) of the arum family, esp. an ornamental (C. antiquorum) having enormous heart-shaped leaves
2. 
any of various cultivated begonias with large, showy leaves

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Elephant Ear

see synonyms of elephant ear
n.
1. See palmier.
2. Any of several plants grown as ornamentals for their large heart-shaped leaves, especially several genera in the family Araceae, including Alocasia, Caladium, Colocasia, and Xanthosoma.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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