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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician [syn: helicon, bombardon]
2: a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family [syn: bombardon, bombard]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Italian bombardone Date: 1856 1. a bass tuba 2. the bass member of the shawm family

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Mus. 1 a type of valved bass tuba. 2 an organ stop imitating this. Etymology: It. bombardone f. bombardo bassoon

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bombardo Bom*bar"do, Bombardon Bom*bar"don, n. [It. bombardo.] (Mus.) Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. --Grove.