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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician [syn: helicon, bombardon]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: probably from Greek helik-, helix + English -on (as in bombardon); from its tube's forming a spiral encircling the player's body Date: circa 1875 a large circular tuba similar to a sousaphone but lacking an adjustable bell

Merriam Webster's

or Modern Greek Elikón geographical name mountain 5735 feet (1748 meters) E central Greece in SW Boeotia near Gulf of Corinth

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a large spiral bass tuba played encircling the player's head and resting on the shoulder. Etymology: L f. Gk Helikon mountain sacred to the Muses: later assoc. with HELIX

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Helicon Hel"i*con, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] A mountain in B[oe]otia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. --Gray.