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aurilaves

aurilaves is the plural of aurilave.

Meaning of aurilave

Noun

aurilave (plural aurilaves)

  1. An instrument for cleansing the ear, consisting of a small piece of sponge on an ivory or bone handle.
  2. An ear-brush.
    • The patient also has used for some time an aurilave, with which he has swabbed his ear until he has packed the canal with debris of ear-wax1879, ?, The American Journal of Otology

Questions about aurilaves

What is aurilaves the plural of?
Aurilaves is the plural of aurilave.

Words near aurilaves in the dictionary

  1. Aurignacian
  2. Aurignacians
  3. aurignacoid
  4. aurigraphy
  5. aurilave
  6. aurilaves
  7. Aurillac
  8. aurin
  9. aurinasal
  10. aurine
  11. aurintricarboxylate

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