elephant ear

What does elephant ear mean?

elephant ear means "any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries".

What is another word for elephant ear?

Close synonyms include alocasia, elephant's ear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elephant ear a common word?

elephant 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for elephant ear come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.