sea-trumpetn.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Opisthobranchiata > suborder Nudibranchiata > family Tritonidae or genus Triton > member of
sea-bug1601
sea-trumpet1668
trumpet1668
trumpet-shell1753
Triton1777
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 177 Cancellus in Buccino degens, the bigger Souldier-Crab dwelling in the Sea-Trumpet.
2. A kind of trumpet used at sea.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > trumpet > types of
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claranerc1410
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sordine1591
sordine trumpet1616
clarion1621
alchemy1667
sourdinea1678
jubil-trumpet1715
lituus1776
sea-trumpet1776
penny trumpet1783
salpinx1865
principal1876
valve trumpet1877
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kakaki1932
zugtrompete1978
vuvuzela2003
1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 522 The Concha, Tromba Marina, or Sea-Trumpet.
3. A very large seaweed, Ecklonia buccinalis.So called from the use of the hollow upper part of the stem when dried, as used as a trumpet at the Cape of Good Hope.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > sea-trumpet
sea-bamboo1798
trumpet-weed1830
sea-trumpet1836
trumpet-grass1850
trumpet-seaweed1884
1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 945 L[aminaria] buccinalis furnishes the singular vegetable production called the sea-trumpet.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. (at cited word)
1882 J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants 419 Trumpet, Sea (Ecklonia buccinalis) a strong-growing seaweed of the Laminaria section of Algæ.
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