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External ear   /ɪkstˈərnəl ɪr/   Listen
External ear

noun
1.
The part of the ear visible externally.  Synonym: outer ear.






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"External ear" Quotes from Famous Books



... which in their amplitude are scarcely surpassed by those of the rabbit and the hare. There is no answer unless their function is to hear the bray of a fellow-ass.... One may object that that majestic sound is surely of force to impress itself without any aid from an external ear; but that is a vain argument built on the costermonger's moke—dreary exile from its fatherland. Remember that its ancestors wandered on the steppes of Central Asia or the borders of the Sahara. In those boundless solitudes, with nothing that eye can see or that common ear can hear ...
— Concerning Animals and Other Matters • E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)



Words linked to "External ear" :   ear canal, external organ, auricle, outer ear, ear, auditory meatus, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, external auditory canal, acoustic meatus, pinna



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