…the organ of hearing and balance in humans and other vertebrates, especially the external part of this…
…a plant that resembles the dandelion, with yellow flowers and rosettes of leaves…
…light popular music that is pleasant and entertaining but intellectually unchallenging…
…each of a pair of tufts of longer feathers on the top of the head of some owls. They are unconnected with the true ears…
…the semicircular canals and cochlea, which form the organs of balance and hearing and are embedded in the temporal bone…
…a common fungus with a brown, rubbery, cup-shaped fruiting body, growing on dead or dying trees in both Eurasia and North America…
…a small white-flowered creeping chickweed with soft hairy leaves which supposedly resemble the ears of mice…
…an edible fungus, black or brown in color, that grows on trees and is sold in dry wrinkled shapes somewhat resembling ears…
…a hollow cone-shaped tube of wax-coated paper or other material, made for use in ear candling…
…a tropical American hummingbird with green or brown plumage and a glittering purple patch behind each eye…
…a form of alternative therapy in which the tapered end of an ear candle is placed in a person’s ear while the other end of the candle is lit, in the belief that earwax and other impurities are drawn out of the ear canal by a partial vacuum created by the candle flame…
…plugs or earmuffs which protect the eardrums from loud or persistent noise…
…talk to someone, especially with great eagerness or in order to ask a favor…
…an ear that has become thickened or deformed as a result of repeated blows, typically in boxing…
…proceed instinctively according to results and circumstances rather than according to rules or a plan…
…a war between England and Spain (1739). It was precipitated by a British sea captain, Robert Jenkins, who appeared before Parliament to produce what he claimed was his ear, cut off by the Spanish while they were carrying out a search of his ship in the Caribbean…
…a membrane of the middle ear that vibrates in response to sound waves; the tympanic membrane…
…a pair of soft fabric coverings, connected by a band across the top of the head, that are worn over the ears to protect them from cold or noise…
