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/hˈəntsmənz hɔrn/ Listen

Huntsman's horn

noun

Pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids. Synonyms: huntsman's horns, Sarracenia flava, trumpets, yellow pitcher plant, yellow trumpet.

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"Huntsman's horn" Quotes from Famous Books

... close. In the meadow behind the keeper's cottage the hounds were summoned by the huntsman's horn, and the bag was opened. The scene that followed marred, for some of us at least, the beauty of the bright March morning. The vixen and her cubs were carried away, and found a new home in an artificial "earth" prepared for their reception ...

— Creatures of the Night - A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain • Alfred W. Rees

... leader who won many victories over the Spaniards, and was drowned by reason of his heavy armour in a swamp of the River Duero, still haunts his burial-place, a piece of marshy ground, near Burgos. There, weird noises, such as the winding of a huntsman's horn and the neighing of a horse, are heard, and the phantasm of the dead Moor is seen mounted on a white horse followed ...

— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell

... but as you are no doctor you don't in the least know what is the amount of the injury. In your great trouble you begin to roar for assistance; but the woods re-echo your words, and the distant sound of the huntsman's horn, as he summons his hounds at a check, only mocks ...

— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

Words linked to "Huntsman's horn" : genus Sarracenia, trumpets, pitcher plant, Sarracenia