syrinx.
A set of panpipes.
Meaning & usage
A set of panpipes.
Chiefly in the plural: a narrow channel cut in rock, especially in Ancient Egyptian burial chambers.
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.
The voice organ in birds, located at or near where the trachea and the bronchi join.
Where this word comes from
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.
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