Elephant ear may literally refer to the ear of an elephant.
It may also refer to:
Plants
- Several genera in the family Araceae (Arums)
- Alocasia, genus of broad-leaved perennials in tropical & subtropical Asia to Eastern Australia
- Caladium, ornamental plants with arrowhead-shaped leaves originally from South America
- Colocasia (taro), a genus of flowering plants native to tropical Polynesia and southeastern Asia
- Philodendron giganteum, a species of plant found in the Caribbean and South America
- Xanthosoma, a genus native to tropical America cultivated for their starchy corms
- Burdock, a thistle in the genus Arctium
- Bergenia crassifolia or other plants in genus Bergenia, shade-loving flowering garden plant
Other uses
- Another name for one of several desserts, including a palmier and fried dough
- Gynandrocarpa placenta, genus Gynandrocarpa, a colonial ascidian, sea squirt, found off the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
- Smoke deflectors on steam locomotives may be called "elephant ears" in US railway slang
See also
- Elephant ear sponge (disambiguation)
- Elephant ear tree, Enterolobium cyclocarpum or Macaranga gigantea
- Elephant-ear bamboo, Reynoutria japonica, more commonly known as Japanese knotweed