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Trumpeter
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What's The Definition Of Trumpeter?
[n] large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry
[n] large gregarious forest-dwelling cranelike bird of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated [n] (formal) a person who announces important news; "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet" [n] a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet Synonyms | Synonyms for Trumpeter: cornetist | Cygnus buccinator | herald | trumpeter swan Related Terms | Find terms related to Trumpeter: See Also | Armstrong | Brazilian trumpeter | bugler | courier | Cygnus | Dizzy Gillespie | genus Cygnus | genus Psophia | Gillespie | instrumentalist | John Birks Gillespie | Louis Armstrong | messenger | musician | player | Psophia | Psophia crepitans | Satchmo | swan | wader | wading bird Trumpeter In Webster's Dictionary \Trump"et*er\, n.
1. One who sounds a trumpet.
2. One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
These men are good trumpeters. --Bacon.
3. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any one of several species of long-legged South
American birds of the genus {Psophia}, especially {P.
crepitans}, which is abundant, and often domesticated
and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are
allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry.
Called also {agami}, and {yakamik}.
(b) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
(c) An American swan ({Olor buccinator}) which has a very
loud note.
4. (Zo["o]l.) A large edible fish ({Latris hecateia}) of the
family {Cirrhitid[ae]}, native of Tasmania and New
Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty
pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.
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