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VALVED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does valved mean?
• VALVED (adjective)
The adjective VALVED has 1 sense:
1. (of brass instruments) having valves
Familiarity information: VALVED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of brass instruments) having valves
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
valve (device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone)
Context examples
Marine and fresh-water crustaceans that have their body enclosed in a bi-valved shell.
(Ostracods, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
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