Usually means: Brass instrument, predecessor to tuba.
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  1. ophicleide: Merriam-Webster
  2. ophicleide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ophicleide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ophicleide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ophicleide: Wordnik
  6. ophicleide: Wiktionary
  7. ophicleide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ophicleide: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Ophicleide, ophicleide: Dictionary.com
  10. Ophicleide (organ stop), Ophicleide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Ophicleide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. ophicleide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Ophicleide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. ophicleide: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ophicleide: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. ophicleide: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  (music) A keyed brass baritone bugle, now replaced by the tuba in orchestral music

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keyed bugle, flugelhorn, cornet, trumpet, Kent bugle, tromboon, tonophant, bigophone, sax tuba, euphonium, more...

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keyed bugle, flugelhorn, cornet, trumpet, Kent bugle, tromboon, tonophant, bigophone, sax tuba, euphonium, more...



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