bugle : Idioms & Phrases

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blue bugle

  • noun upright rhizomatous perennial with bright blue flowers; southern Europe
    blue bugle; Ajuga genevensis.
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bugle call

  • noun a signal broadcast by the sound of a bugle
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bugle horn

Bu"gle horn`
Definitions
  1. A bugle.
    One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott.
  2. A drinking vessel made of horn. Obs.
    And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine. Chaucer.
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creeping bugle

  • noun low rhizomatous European carpeting plant having spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in parts of United States
    Ajuga reptans.
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erect bugle

  • noun upright rhizomatous perennial with bright blue flowers; southern Europe
    blue bugle; Ajuga genevensis.
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kent bugle

Kent" bu"gle
Etymology
Probably named after a Duke of Kent.
Definitions
  1. (Mus.) A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; -- called also keyed bugle, and key bugle. Moore.
Webster 1913

Key bugle

  • . See Kent bugle.
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Keyed bugle

  • . See Kent bugle.
Webster 1913

pyramid bugle

  • noun European evergreen carpeting perennial
    Ajuga pyramidalis.
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Yellow bugle

  • noun low-growing annual with yellow flowers dotted red; faintly aromatic of pine resin; Europe, British Isles and North Africa
    ground pine; Ajuga chamaepitys.
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  • the Ajuga chamæpitys.
  • (Bot.), a European labiate plant (Ajuga Chamæpitys).
Webster 1913