trumpeter (trumpeter)

[= D. trompetter G. Dan. trompeter = Sw. trumpet are; as = trumpet + -er1. Cf. OF. trompeteur, trompetteur; also Sp. trompetero Pg. trombeteiro = It. trombettiere.] 1. One who sounds a trum IMG:content-0980.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0981.jpg:[blocks in formation] Trumpeter-swan ( Olor buccinator ). 1. A fish of trumpet-fish (trumpet-fish), n. the family Centriscidæ, as Centriscus scolopах; a bellows-fish or sea-snipe: so called from the long tubular snout. See cut under snipe-fish. -2. A fish of the family Fistulariidæ; a tobacco-pipe fish.