lop-ear

(lop'ēr),

Congenital abnormality of the external ear, with poor development of helix and anthelix.

Synonym(s): bat ear

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What to you the friendship of Lop-Ear, the warm lure of the Swift One, the lust and the atavism of Red-Eye?

I told him of the terrors of that early time, of Lop-Ear and the pranks we played, of the gibbering councils, and of the Fire People and their squatting places.

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Not far from her they were taking the rug off the lop-eared Gladiator.

Several of the riders were in front and several behind, when suddenly Vronsky heard the sound of a horse galloping in the mud behind him, and he was overtaken by Mahotin on his white-legged, lop-eared Gladiator.

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the lop-eared one, and the spotted doe that Tom spent all his money to buy?"

"Don't you fret, Miss," said Luke, soothingly; "they're nash things, them lop-eared rabbits; they'd happen ha' died, if they'd been fed.

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Love's young dream, I muses to myself, how swift it fades when a man has the nature and disposition of a lop-eared rabbit!

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Toby proved to an ugly, long-haired, lop-eared creature, half spaniel and half lurcher, brown-and-white in color, with a very clumsy waddling gait.

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"Mine are lop-eared," replied Tom, supposing Tibby to be a rabbit.

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Humphrey, a rare type of French Lop-Ear, weighs two-stone and chomps his way through entire loaves of bread, popcorn, biscuits and piles of veg.

Bunny monster's for sale

He added: "If anyone sees a white lop-ear hopping along a pier, get in touch as I would like him back."

WISH YOU WERE HARE; Barney's bunny hops off to the seaside

This book, by master felter Sachiko Susa, takes readers from start to finish through crafting nine different breeds of dog, six breeds of cat, hamsters, and both regular and lop-eared rabbits.