cauliflower ear

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   an auricle deformed by injury; common among boxers

   Broaderauricle

Questions about cauliflower ear

What does cauliflower ear mean?

cauliflower ear means "an auricle deformed by injury; common among boxers".

Is cauliflower ear a common word?

cauliflower ear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.