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n. A large, valved, brass wind instrument with a bass pitch.

n. A reed stop in an organ, having eight-foot pitch.

n. A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.

n. An ancient trumpet.

n. A sax-tuba. See sax-tuba.

n. An ancient Roman trumpet with a straight tube of metal, like the Greek salpinx.

n. In the Philippine Islands, Guam, and the west coast of Mexico, the sap obtained from the immature inflorescence of the coconut, which is allowed to ferment and is used as a beverage, and from which a distilled liquor called vino, or aguardiente, is obtained.

n. In the peninsula of Malacca and the Malay Archipelago, a name applied to a number of fish-intoxicants, especially to Deguelia elliptica, and in the Philippine Islands to Croton Tiglium, Jatropha Curcas, and Cocculus Cocculus, used for the same purpose.

n. A musical instrument of the trumpet family, of very large size and low pitch.

n. In organ-building, a reed-stop of large scale, so connected with a separate bellows with extra weights that the tones are of exceptional power and majesty. Usually called tuba mirabilis.

n. In anatomy and zoül, a tube or tubular part or organ; specifically, the Eustachian tube, or salpinx. See hydra tuba (under hydra), and cut under scyphistoma.

n. the lowest brass wind instrument

"In the interest of alcoholic comprehensiveness, "tuba" is also the Philippine name for fermented palm tree sap, which can either be made into a wine-like beverage or soured into vinegar."

dilatator tubæ    bass tuba    euphonium    tube    sousaphone    tubular   

tubae    sax-tuba   

tubalike    tubist    wagner tuba    tubaist   

Aruba    Cuba    Juba    Luba    Suba    Yoruba    chuba    juba    scuba    suba   

trombone    sax    violoncello    clef    hautboy    flageolet    cornet    woodwind    zither    harmonica