TRUMPETS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trumpets mean? 

• TRUMPETS (noun)
  The noun TRUMPETS has 1 sense:

1. pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids

  Familiarity information: TRUMPETS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUMPETS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

huntsman's horn; huntsman's horns; Sarracenia flava; trumpets; yellow pitcher plant; yellow trumpet

Hypernyms ("trumpets" is a kind of...):

pitcher plant (any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales)

Holonyms ("trumpets" is a member of...):

genus Sarracenia; Sarracenia (pitcher plants)

 Context examples 

“And sound the trumpets!” cried Sir Oliver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the fisherman went home; and as he came close to the palace he saw a troop of soldiers, and heard the sound of drums and trumpets.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I am confident that all the drums and trumpets of a royal army, beating and sounding together just at your ears, could not equal it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Helen Della Delmar (proclaimed with a flourish of trumpets and rolling of tomtoms to be the greatest woman poet in the United States) denied Brissenden a seat beside her on Pegasus and wrote voluminous letters to the public, proving that he was no poet.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I seem to hear a hundred trumpets, all calling in chorus.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other side of the lake stood a fine illuminated castle, from which came the merry music of horns and trumpets.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The prince nodded, and the trumpets rang out, while the champions rode forth one after the other, each meeting his opponent in the centre of the lists.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now blow out the trumpets, and may God's benison be with the honest men!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As the prince spoke, amid a loud flourish of trumpets and the shouting of the Gascon party, the last of the assailants rode gallantly into the lists.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)