flap-eared

English

Harvard Eddie Grant, a flap-eared baseball player

A flap-eared Buddha, associated with his renunciation of his former weighty earrings and with various positive attributes

Etymology

From flap + eared.

Adjective

flap-eared (comparative more flap-eared, superlative most flap-eared)

1. Having ears that appear as though they could flap,
   1. (of people) Having large ears clearly distinct from the head.
   2. (of animals) Synonym of flop-eared, having large pendant ears.

Translations

having protuberant ears

• Irish: cluasach
• Latin: flaccus, plautus

References

• “flap-eared”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.