Elephant earとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From its general resemblance in form.

名詞

elephant ear (plural elephant ears)

1. A funnel cake.
2. A flat, crisp, sugared pastry made of fried dough.

   Coordinate term: beavertail

3. A palmier.
4. Any of several plants in tribe Colocasieae or Caladieae.
   1. A taro plant, of genera Alocasia, Colocasia, or Xanthosoma.
   2. Caladium.
5. Burdock (Arctium spp.).
6. Any bergenia, esp. of species Bergenia crassifolia,
7. Gynandrocarpa placenta
8. (aviation, slang) A section of aileron that protrudes beyond the wing.
   • 1990, Alaskan Aviation History: 1929-1930, page 714:

     It did not have the “elephant ears” on the ailerons like the earlier Waco Model 9.

9. (aerospace, slang) A reinforcing disk on a missile.
10. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see elephant,‎ ear.

派生語

• elephant-ear fern (Elaphoglossum crinitum)
• elephant-ear sponge (Spongia officinalis lamella)
• elephant ear tree (Enterolobium cyclocarpum or Macaranga gigantea)