bugle

Meanings

Noun

• A horn used by hunters.
• a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
• Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
• The sound of something that bugles.
• A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
• A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
• A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.

Verb

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

Adjective

• jet-black

Related

Similar words

• cone, funnel
• trumpet

Broader meaning words

• musical instrument

Origin

• From Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin buculus ("young bull; ox; steer").
• From Late Latin bugulus ("a woman's ornament").
• From Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.
• file:Ajuga reptans 20070429 132711 1.jpg|thumb|[[common bugle (Ajuga reptans)]]