trum·pet·er /ˈtrʌmpətɚ/
喇叭手;吹噓者;鶴之類
Trump·et·er n.
1. One who sounds a trumpet.
2. One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
These men are good trumpeters. --Bacon.
3. Zool. (a) Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially Psophia crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik. (b) A variety of the domestic pigeon. (c) An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note.
4. Zool. A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidae, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.
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trumpeter
n 1: a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet [syn: cornetist]
2: (formal) a person who announces important news; "the
chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a
trumpet" [syn: herald]
3: large gregarious forest-dwelling cranelike bird of South
America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged
cry; easily domesticated
4: large pure white wild swan of western North America having a
sonorous cry [syn: trumpeter swan, Cygnus buccinator]