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SAXHORN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does saxhorn mean?
• SAXHORN (noun)
The noun SAXHORN has 1 sense:
1. any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves
Familiarity information: SAXHORN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("saxhorn" is a kind of...):
brass; brass instrument (a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece)
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