elephant ear

plural elephant ears · alternative elephants' ear

1. A funnel cake.
2. A flat, crisp, sugared pastry made of fried dough.
3. A palmier.
4. Any of several plants in tribe Colocasieae or Caladieae.
   1. A taro plant, of genera Alocasia, Colocasia, or Xanthosoma.
   2. Caladium.
5. Burdock (Arctium spp.).
6. Any bergenia, esp. of species Bergenia crassifolia,
7. Gynandrocarpa placenta
8. slangaircraftA section of aileron that protrudes beyond the wing.

   It did not have the “elephant ears” on the ailerons like the earlier Waco Model 9.

   1990, Alaskan Aviation History: 1929-1930, page 714

9. slangspacecraftgovernmentA reinforcing disk on a missile.
10. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see elephant, ear.