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bugle

Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːɡəl/

The English word “bugle” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  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. The sound of something that bugles.
  4. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
  5. A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim.
  6. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.

verb

  1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.

adjective

  1. jet-black

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle (“young ox, heifer; bugle”), from Latin būculus (“young ox, steer”).

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