Oreja

Oreja
 

This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for July 3, 2008

oreja - feminine noun (la) - ear. Look up oreja in the dictionary

Muchos animales son capaces de mover sus orejas hacia la dirección de donde proviene un sonido, pero los humanos no tenemos esa capacidad.
Many animals are able to move their ears toward a sound, but humans do not have that ability.

Please help me. What is the difference between oido and oreja. Oido is the organ and oreja is the outer ear; is that right?

I think so. You would say:
Me duelen los oídos.
Prince Charles tiene las orejas muy grandes.

Do you know what an orejón is?

A stupid person (tonto)...?

eavesdropper?

A person with big ears?

It could be what you said David, but I was thinking of food. Any ideas?

Could it be a palmier/or elephant ear as some of us call it?

piece of dried peach or apricot:p
orejudo: big-eared / orejón,-ona :stupid(tonto)
orejar: eavesdrop.

oído = inner ear (the organ), hearing, sense of hearing (audición)
oreja = outer ear (Pabellón auricular in Spanish, Pinna in English)

In México there's a type of bread (pan dulce) called an oreja (not orejón):

http://forums.tomisimo.org/attachmen...1&d=1215110417

We call the thing in the picture palmera over here. Orejón as Jane said is a dry apricot.