ecklonia buccinalis

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ecklonia buccinalis - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Trumpet \Trump"et\, n. [F. trompette, dim. of trompe. See
     Trump a trumpet.]
     1. (Mus.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in
        war and military exercises, and of great value in the
        orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved
        (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a
        bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the
        first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets
        capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every
        tone within their compass, although at the expense of the
        true ringing quality of tone.
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              The trumpet's loud clangor
              Excites us to arms.                   --Dryden.
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     2. (Mil.) A trumpeter. --Clarendon.
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     3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the
        instrument of propagating it. --Shak.
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              That great politician was pleased to have the
              greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet
              of his praises.                       --Dryden.
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     4. (Mach) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide
        or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
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     Ear trumpet. See under Ear.
  
     Sea trumpet (Bot.), a great seaweed (Ecklonia buccinalis)
        of the Southern Ocean. It has a long, hollow stem,
        enlarging upwards, which may be made into a kind of
        trumpet, and is used for many purposes.
  
     Speaking trumpet, an instrument for conveying articulate
        sounds with increased force.
  
     Trumpet animalcule (Zool.), any infusorian belonging to
        Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is
        trumpet-shaped. See Stentor.
  
     Trumpet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. [Eng.]
  
     Trumpet conch (Zool.), a trumpet shell, or triton.
  
     Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbing plant (Tecoma  radicans
        ) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped
        flowers; -- called also trumpet flower, and in England
        trumpet ash.
  
     Trumpet fish. (Zool.)
        (a) The bellows fish.
        (b) The fistularia.
  
     Trumpet flower. (Bot.)
        (a) The trumpet creeper; also, its blossom.
        (b) The trumpet honeysuckle.
        (c) A West Indian name for several plants with
            trumpet-shaped flowers.
  
     Trumpet fly (Zool.), a botfly.
  
     Trumpet honeysuckle (Bot.), a twining plant (Lonicera  sempervirens
        ) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers;
        -- called also trumpet flower.
  
     Trumpet leaf (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus
        Sarracenia.
  
     Trumpet major (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or
        regiment.
  
     Trumpet marine (Mus.), a monochord, having a thick string,
        sounded with a bow, and stopped with the thumb so as to
        produce the harmonic tones; -- said to be the oldest bowed
        instrument known, and in form the archetype of all others.
        It probably owes its name to "its external resemblance to
        the large speaking trumpet used on board Italian vessels,
        which is of the same length and tapering shape." --Grove.
  
     Trumpet shell (Zool.), any species of large marine univalve
        shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See
        Triton, 2.
  
     Trumpet tree. (Bot.) See Trumpetwood.
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