stentor
IPA: stˈɛntɝ
Root Word: Stentor
noun
- A herald in the Iliad celebrated for his loud voice.
- (astronomy) The Jovian asteroid 2146 Stentor.
- A person with a powerful or stentorian voice.
- Any protozoan of the genus Stentor.
- A part of the amplification system of a carillon.
- A howler monkey.
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Examples of "stentor" in Sentences
- Stentor Coeruleus is known to habituate to its environment.
- Stentor coeruleus specifically appears as a very large trumpet.
- He fancied himself to have a voice like the Greek herald Stentor.
- The stentor would talk into a double receiver to transmit the news.
- As in many freshwater protozoans, the 'Stentor' has a contractile vacuole.
- Stentor was lost in a launch failure on the maiden flight of the Ariane 5ECA.
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