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sea-trumpet

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.

Oxford English Dictionary

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