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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 oboe /ˈo(ˌ)bo/
 雙簧管

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 O·boe n.  Mus. One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.
 Oboe d'amore , and Oboe di caccia , are names of obsolete modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of Bach and Handel.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 oboe
      n : a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical
          bore and a double-reed mouthpiece [syn: hautboy, hautbois]