Dictionary Definition

bugle

1 a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares

2 any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover [syn: bugleweed]

3 a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration v : play on a bugle

User Contributed Dictionary

a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
the often cultivated plant lamiaceae
anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end

music: a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves

the often cultivated plant lamiaceae

anything shaped like a bugle

The word bugle may refer to:

A bugle, the sound that an elk makes during the "rut" or mating season.
Bugle (instrument), a horn in the "natural" brass musical instrument family
Bugle (plant), an often cultivated plant of the family Lamiaceae
Bugle, Cornwall, a village in Cornwall
BuGLe, a software tool for debugging applications which use OpenGL
Bugles is the name of a corn chip snack.
The Bugle (newspaper) or Bugle-American, a former underground newspaper in Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin.
The Daily Bugle, a fictitious newspaper in the Marvel Comics universe
The Bugle, a satiric podcast hosted by John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman.
A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
Bugler (tobacco), a brand of tobacco.

bugle in Japanese: ビューグル

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