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transverse auricular muscle (medicine) and pampas (iou)


transverse auricular muscle (medicine)


transverse auricular muscle
<anatomy> A band of sparse muscular fibres on the cranial surface of the auricle, extending from the eminence of the concha to the eminence of the scapha.

Synonym: musculus transversus auriculae, transverse muscle of auricle.


pampas (iou)



pampas noun pl. , also used as sing. Also in sing. form pampa. E18.
[Spanish, pl. of pampa from Quechua = a plain: see -S1.]
pl. (treated as sing. or pl.). The extensive treeless plains of S. America south of the Amazon. Also in sing., these plains considered collectively; any one of these plains. E18.
G. Durrell You could approach fairly close to most of the bird-life on the pampa. P. Theroux We began speeding across the pampas, a cool immense pasture.
pl. (treated as sing.). A yellowy-green colour, esp. used for bathroom suites. Usu. attrib. L20.
Comb.: pampas cat a large wild cat of the pampas, Felis colocolo, with long yellow-grey fur marked with oblique brownish stripes; pampas deer a small deer of S. American grassland, Odocoileus bezoarticus; pampas flicker a black, white, and yellow woodpecker, Colaptes campestris, of eastern S. America; pampas fox any of several small mammals resembling a fox or a dog, esp. the fox Dusicyon gymnocercus of eastern and southern parts of S. America; pampas-grass a very tall grass, Cortaderia selloana, with silky panicles of a silvery hue, native to S. America and grown elsewhere as an ornamental plant.