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elephant ear

elephant ear noun: a funnel cake.

Noun

elephant ear (plural elephant ears)

  1. A funnel cake.
  2. A flat, crisp, sugared pastry made of fried dough.
  3. A palmier.
  4. A taro plant, of genera Alocasia, Colocasia, or Xanthosoma.
  5. Caladium.
  6. Burdock (Arctium spp.).
  7. Any bergenia, esp. of species Bergenia crassifolia,
  8. Gynandrocarpa placenta
  9. (slang) A section of aileron that protrudes beyond the wing.
    • It did not have the “elephant ears” on the ailerons like the earlier Waco Model 9.1990, Alaskan Aviation History: 1929-1930, page 714
  10. (slang) A reinforcing disk on a missile.
  11. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see elephant, ear.

elephant ear meaning in Tamil

elephant ear in Tamil

ஏவுகணை உலோகப்பூச்சு

Forms of elephant ear

pluralelephant ears
alternative formelephants' ear

Origin of elephant ear

From its general resemblance in form.

Words formed from elephant ear

Questions about elephant ear

What does elephant ear mean?
Elephant ear means a funnel cake.
What is elephant ear in Tamil?
Elephant ear in Tamil is ஏவுகணை உலோகப்பூச்சு. See Elephant ear meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is elephant ear?
Elephant ear is a noun.
What is the plural of elephant ear?
The plural of elephant ear is elephant ears.

Words near elephant ear in the dictionary

  1. elephant creepers
  2. elephant door
  3. elephant doors
  4. elephant dose
  5. elephant doses
  6. elephant ear
  7. elephant ear tree
  8. elephant ears
  9. elephant fish
  10. elephant fishes
  11. elephant foot yam

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Adapted from Wiktionary: elephant ear (page history and authors); elephant ear (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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