Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The thin, flat muscle forming the wall of the cheek.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the trumpeter's muscle; a thin flat muscle forming the wall of the cheek, assisting in mastication, and also in blowing wind-instruments (whence its name).
- noun The specific name of the trumpeter swan of North America, Cygnus buccinator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a thin broad muscle forming the wall of the cheek.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Dave pulls out a drawer labeled Cygnus buccinator and there they are, just as I remembered them, their legs folded up next to their heads, a lamentation of swans.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Dave pulls out a drawer labeled Cygnus buccinator and there they are, just as I remembered them, their legs folded up next to their heads, a lamentation of swans.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Of special interest are the whooping crane Grus americana (EN), the nationally threatened bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, and trumpeter swan Cygnus buccinator.
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A small population of trumpeter swan Olor buccinator, a rare species in Canada, nests on Yohin lake.
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Other species include marbled murrelet Brachyramphus marmoratus, trumpeter swan Cygnus buccinator, and golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos.
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Without the help of the epicranius, zygomaticus, triangurlis, quadratus labii, buccinator and platysma, Little Red Riding Hood would have been little more than a silhouette through closed eyelids.
Muscles Part 2 2008
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These include trumpeter swan Cygnus buccinator and peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, both considered vulnerable in Canada.
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Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, he explained, owed the signature ballooning of his cheeks to the buccinator muscles.
Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001
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The analogy to Gillespie was apt, he continued, because buccinator is the name of the long trumpets used to herald royalty in the Roman Empire.
Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001
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Bacon wished to be the buccinator or herald of a new world, and his true greatness consists precisely in this function of his as herald.
BACONIANISM PAOLO ROSSI 1968
reesetee commented on the word buccinator
A thin, flat muscle lining the cheek, the action of which contracts and compresses the cheek.
I like the etymology: 1665–75; buccin�?tor, būcin�?tor, trumpeter, equiv. to būcin�?(re), to signal on a trumpet (v. deriv. of būcina, curved trumpet or horn) + -tor. :-)
August 5, 2009