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syrinx

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun syrinx has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

syrinxn. [NL., from Gr. a pipe.].
  •  A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The lower larynx in birds.  [1913 Webster]
    " In birds there are two laringes, an upper or true, but voiceless, larynx in the usual position behind the tongue, and a lower one, at or near the junction of the trachea and bronchi, which is the true organ of the voice."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

syrinx, n. (pl. syrinxes or syringes)
1 a set of pan-pipes.
2 Archaeol. a narrow gallery cut in rock in an ancient Egyptian tomb.
3 the lower larynx or song-organ of birds.

Derivative
syringeal adj.
Etymology
L syrinx -ngis f. Gk surigx suriggos pipe, channel
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