auriform

[awr-uh-fawrm]

au·ri·form

[awr-uh-fawrm]
adjective
shaped like an ear, as the shell of certain mollusks.

Origin:
1810–20; auri-2 + -form
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Auriform is always a great word to know.
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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auriform

adjective
having a shape resembling an ear 
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