Usually means: Large, leafy plant resembling ears.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word elephant ear:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. elephant ear: Merriam-Webster
  2. elephant ear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elephant ear: Vocabulary.com
  4. elephant ear: Wiktionary
  5. elephant ear: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. elephant ear: Dictionary.com
  7. Elephant ear (doughnut), Elephant ear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. elephant ear: Rhymezone
  9. elephant ear: FreeDictionary.org
  10. elephant ear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. elephant ear: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elephant ear: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Elephant ear: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  2. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elephant Ear: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See elephant_ears as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (elephant ear)

noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see elephant, ear.
noun:  A funnel cake.
noun:  A flat, crisp, sugared pastry made of fried dough.
noun:  A palmier.
noun:  Any of several plants in tribe Colocasieae or Caladieae.
noun:  A taro plant, of genera Alocasia, Colocasia, or Xanthosoma.
noun:  Caladium.
noun:  Burdock (Arctium spp.).
noun:  Any bergenia, esp. of species Bergenia crassifolia,
noun:  Gynandrocarpa placenta
noun:  (aviation, slang) A section of aileron that protrudes beyond the wing.
noun:  (aerospace, slang) A reinforcing disk on a missile.

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