trumpet : Idioms & Phrases

• noun South American plant cultivated for its very large nocturnally fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers
  Brugmansia suaveolens; Datura suaveolens.
  
• noun a South American plant that is cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers
  Datura arborea; Brugmansia arborea; maikoa.
  

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• noun a conical acoustic device formerly used to direct sound to the ear of a hearing-impaired person
  hearing aid.
  

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• an instrument to aid in hearing. It consists of a tube broad at the outer end, and narrowing to a slender extremity which enters the ear, thus collecting and intensifying sounds so as to assist the hearing of a partially deaf person.

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• noun poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers
  Gelsemium sempervirens; yellow jessamine; yellow jasmine; Carolina jasmine.
  

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• noun vigorous evergreen climbing plant of South America having glossy leathery foliage and golden yellow flowers
  common allamanda; Allamanda cathartica.
  

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• noun shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having brilliant scarlet flowers
  Epilobium canum canum; Zauschneria californica; California fuchsia.
  

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• noun evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers
  Easter lily vine; Beaumontia grandiflora.
  

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• noun arborescent South American shrub having very large orange-red flowers
  Brugmansia sanguinea; Datura sanguinea.
  

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• (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.

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• noun a trumpet-shaped acoustic device to intensify and direct the human voice; formerly held to the ear by a hard-of-hearing person
  

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• an instrument for conveying articulate sounds with increased force.
• an instrument somewhat resembling a trumpet, by which the sound of the human voice may be so intensified as to be conveyed to a great distance.

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• to vaunt one's own exploits, or sound one's own praises.

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• (Zoöl.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor.

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• noun a conical squinch
  

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• (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. Eng.

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• (Zoöl.), a trumpet shell, or triton.

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• noun a North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowers
  trumpet creeper; Campsis radicans.
  

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• (Bot.), an American climbing plant (Tecoma radicans) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia.

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• noun Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat
  cupflower; chalice vine; Solandra guttata.
  
• noun woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section
  Bignonia capreolata; quarter-vine; quartervine; cross vine.
  
• noun evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers
  Lonicera sempervirens; trumpet honeysuckle; coral honeysuckle; trumpet flower.
  

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• . (Bot.) (a) The trumpet creeper; also, its blossom. (b) The trumpet honeysuckle. (c) A West Indian name for several plants with trumpet-shaped flowers.

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• (Zoöl.), a botfly.

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• noun evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers
  Lonicera sempervirens; trumpet honeysuckle; coral honeysuckle; trumpet flower.
  

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• (Bot.), a twining plant (Lonicera sempervirens) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; called also trumpet flower.

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• (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Sarracenia.

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• (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment.

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• (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.

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• noun the section of a band or orchestra that plays trumpets or cornets
  

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• (Zoöl.), any species of large marine univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2.

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• noun tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems
  Cecropia peltata; imbauba; trumpetwood; snake wood; trumpet tree.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Trumpetwood.

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• noun a North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowers
  trumpet creeper; Campsis radicans.
  
• noun evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers
  Lonicera sempervirens; trumpet honeysuckle; coral honeysuckle; trumpet flower.
  

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• noun North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple
  Eupatorium purpureum; marsh milkweed; Joe-Pye weed; purple boneset.
  

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• adjective satellite resembling the sound of a trumpet
  

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• adjective satellite shaped in the form of a trumpet
  
  • trumpet-shaped flowers

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Trump"et-shaped` adjective

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1. Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.

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Trump"et-tongued` adjective

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1. Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.

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• noun tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems
  Cecropia peltata; imbauba; trumpetwood; snake wood; trumpet tree.
  

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• noun any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne; evergreen perennials growing in fresh or brackish water; tropical Asia
  cryptocoryne.
  

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• noun tall lily have large white trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in the spring
  Lilium longiflorum; Easter lily; Bermuda lily.
  

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• noun pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids
  Sarracenia flava; trumpets; huntsman's horns; huntsman's horn; yellow pitcher plant.
  

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