euphonium
noun/juːˈfəʊnɪəm/
Etymology From Ancient Greek εὔφωνος (eúphōnos, “sweet-voiced”) + -ium.
1
A valved brass instrument with conical tubing similar in appearance to a tuba but of higher pitch.
- [T]hey could easily have been wearing euphoniums and woad for all the notice their quarry would have taken of them.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 68:
- Derived terms
- euphoniumist