auriform


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au·ri·form

 (ôr′ə-fôrm′)
adj.
Shaped like an ear.
[Latin auris, ear; see ous- in Indo-European roots + -form.]
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Adj.1.auriform - having a shape resembling an ear
ear-like, ear-shaped
rounded - curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"
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A revision of the chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of Southern Africa and the south-western Indian ocean
Head indistinctly longer than wide; in males vertex gently rounded posteriorly and sparsely tuberculate, in females roundly convex, tuberculate and with a pair of distinct auriform or foliaceous, laterally compressed lobes.
Studies on neotropical Phasmatodea XIV: revisions of the Central American genera Hypocyrtus Redtenbacher, 1908 and Rhynchacris Redtenbacher, 1908 (Phasmatodea: "Anareolatae": Xerosomatinae: Hesperophasmatini)

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