Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
An Arcadian nymph, changed into a reed
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Greek
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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noun
A set of panpipes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Chiefly in the plural: a narrow channel cut in rock, especially in Ancient Egyptian burial chambers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: Egyptology, archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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noun
Any of several abnormal tube-shaped structures in the body, especially a rare, fluid-filled neuroglial cavity in the brain stem or within the spinal cord.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: medicine, neurology, neuroscience, pathology, sciences
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noun
The voice organ in birds, located at or near where the trachea and the bronchi join.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, ornithology, zoology, zootomy
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Synonyms: lower larynx
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the vocal organ of a bird
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
noun
a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: panpipe, pandean pipe
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pipe
History
Borrowed from Latin Sȳrinx, from Ancient Greek Σῦρῐγξ (Sûrĭnx).
Learned borrowing from Latin sȳrinx (“reed; reed pipe, panpipes”), from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “panpipes; pipe-shaped object”), from Pre-Greek. Doublet of syringe. The plural form syringes is a learned borrowing from Latin sȳringes.
Across languages
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
