earlids

• Why? Because hearing-without-seeing is a mode literally hardwired into our specieshood: We have eyelids not earlids, the world grows dark every night but not necessarily silent, and so on. —  Omni: August 1994
• Most of a human's features were in place, but she had lids over everything: eyelids, earlids, no nose, no hair, a gristly filter behind the lips, and no obvious openings that a human would cover with clothing. —  AnalogSFF,March2006

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