Definitions
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- adjective having small ears
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Examples
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Central American mammals found in this ecoregion include the Central American spider monkey (Cryptotis nigrescens), Mexican mouse opossum (Marmosa mexicana), blackish small-eared shrew (Cryptotis nigrescens), and Yucatan deer mouse (Peromyscus yucatanicus).
Petenes mangroves 2009
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There is certainly a scarce type which, for want of a better hypothesis, might be called Greek: of delicate build and below the average height, small-eared and straight-nosed, with curly hair that varies from blonde to what Italians call _castagno chiaro.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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Of this route we have a trace in the land animals engraved upon the well-known Black Obelisk, where the combination of the small-eared or Indian elephant and the rhinoceros with the two-humped Bactrian camel, sufficiently marks the line by which the productions of India, occasionally at, any rate, reached Assyria.
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Mr Waterton's young chimpanzee was in reality a small-eared gorilla.
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The peculiar small-eared and small-grained wheat, already alluded to, was the commonest kind during the Stone period; it lasted down to the Helvetico-Roman age, and then became extinct.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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There are those among us who will be glad at heart to hear a small-eared bunny has decided the green outside the building is a fine homestead.
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