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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A large, valved, brass instrument with a bass pitch; a tuba or a sousaphone.
  • noun An instrument similar to the serpent but shaped like a bassoon, used primarily in military bands in the early 19th century.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Mus.) A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A large brass instrument in the bass range, usually referring to the modern tuba or the archaic serpent

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the lowest brass wind instrument

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