| 词汇 | ear |
| 词源 | ear. Though ears of corn grow on the side of the corn plant and might suggest the ears that are organs of hearing, the two words are historically unrelated. The ear used for hearing comes to us from the Latin aurus, meaning the same, while the ear of corn comes from the Latin aucus, husk. Even traced back to their ultimate roots, the two words have different etymological origins. Their similarity is purely coincidental. |
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