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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Bot.) A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.

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  • noun Plural form of trumpet.
  • noun A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trumpet.

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  • noun pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids

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Examples

  • We definitely don't need no stinkin 'trumpets, says Declan Burke, about his book The Big O (or "the embiggened O", the mind boggles).

    A few more books Maxine 2007

  • We definitely don't need no stinkin 'trumpets, says Declan Burke, about his book The Big O (or "the embiggened O", the mind boggles).

    June 2007 Maxine 2007

  • We definitely don't need no stinkin 'trumpets, says Declan Burke, about his book The Big O (or "the embiggened O", the mind boggles).

    A few more books Maxine 2007

  • The sound that precipitates this exclamation is not that of the birds singing "a joyous song" (19) nor the "tabor's sound" (20) of which the poet also takes note, but rather the cataracts, which "blow their trumpets from the steep"

    Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005

  • What he hears, what he responds to with such joy, is the cataracts, which "blow their trumpets from the steep."

    Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005

  • The methods were another thing; when the tin trumpets were blown and brandished, we had to use the same loud methods and call in the police.

    Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography 1913

  • Above the cannon and rifles the music of the calling trumpets sounded.

    The Rock of Chickamauga A Story of the Western Crisis 1890

  • Daffodils with the largest coronas, or cups, are called trumpets.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • I hear their drum in the desert, and the voice of their trumpets is like the wind of eve, but a decree hath gone forth, and it says, that a mortal shall be more precious than fine gold, yea, a man than the rich ore of Ophir.

    Chapter 4 - Part VII 1822

  • In addition to the blog entry's reductionist view of why Disney's traditional animation unit shut down, the entry's title trumpets:

    Frames Per Second Magazine 2009

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