sea-trumpet
† 1. A trumpet-shell or triton-shell. Obs.
1668 Charleton Onomast. 177 Cancellus in Buccino degens, the bigger Souldier-Crab dwelling in the Sea-Trumpet. |
2. A kind of trumpet used at sea.
1776 Burney Hist. Mus. I. 522 The Concha, Tromba Marina, or Sea-Trumpet. |
3. A very large seaweed, Ecklonia buccinalis.
So called from the use of the hollow upper part of the stem when dried, as used as a trumpet at the Cape of Good Hope.
1829 Loudon Encycl. Plants (1836) 945 L[aminaria] buccinalis furnishes the singular vegetable production called the sea-trumpet. 1866 Treas. Bot. s.v. 1882 J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants 419 Trumpet, Sea (Ecklonia buccinalis) a strong-growing seaweed of the Laminaria section of Algæ. |