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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large, valved, brass instrument with a bass pitch; a tuba or a sousaphone.
 - noun An instrument similar to the serpent but shaped like a bassoon, used primarily in military bands in the early 19th century.
 
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Mus.) A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone.
 
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun   A large 
brass instrument in the bass range, usually referring to the moderntuba or the archaicserpent  
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the lowest brass wind instrument
 
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