Associations to the word «Auricle»

Wiktionary

AURICLE, noun. (anatomy) The outer ear or pinna.
AURICLE, noun. (anatomy) An ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the heart.
AURICLE, noun. (anatomy) An atrium, the smaller of the two types of chamber in the heart.
AURICLE, noun. (botany) Any appendage in the shape of an earlobe.

Dictionary definition

AURICLE, noun. A small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart.
AURICLE, noun. The externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats