double bassoon

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   the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family

   Synonymscontrabassooncontrafagotto

   Broaderbassoon

Questions about double bassoon

What does double bassoon mean?

double bassoon means "the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family".

What is another word for double bassoon?

Close synonyms include contrabassoon, contrafagotto. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is double bassoon a common word?

double bassoon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.