Stentor

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stentor \Sten"tor\, n. [L. Stentor, Gr. ?.]
     1. A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence,
        any person having a powerful voice.
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     2. (Zool.) Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the


        genus {Stentor} and allied genera, common in fresh water.
        The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body
        with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk.
        See Illust. under {Heterotricha}.
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     3. (Zool.) A howling monkey, or howler.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stentor
       n 1: a speaker with an unusually laoud voice
       2: the mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who
          died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes
       3: any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are
          members of the genus Stentor