Auricular finger, the little finger; so called because it can be readily introduced into the ear passage.
||Au*ric`u*la"ri*a (&?;), n. pl. [Neut. pl., fr. LL. auricularis.] (Zoöl.) A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.
Au*ric"u*lar*ly, adv. In an auricular manner.
Au*ric"u*lars (&?;), n. pl. (Zoöl.) A circle of feathers surrounding the opening of the ear of birds.
{ Au*ric"u*late (&?;), Au*ric"u*la`ted (&?;), } a. [See Auricle.] (Biol.) Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (b) (Zoöl.) Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc.
Auriculate leaf, one having small appended leaves or lobes on each side of its petiole or base.
Au*rif"er*ous (&?;), a. [L. aurifer; aurum gold + ferre to bear: cf. F. aurifère.] Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold.
Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays.
Thomson.
Auriferous pyrites, iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.
Au"ri*flamme (&?;), n. See Oriflamme.
Au"ri*form (&?;), a. [L. auris ear + -form.] Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped.
||Au*ri"ga (&?;), n. [L., charioteer.] (Anat.) The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.