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bugle

/ˈbjuːɡəl/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A horn used by hunters.
  2. A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
  3. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
  4. Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
  5. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle
  6. A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
  7. Jet-black
  8. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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