Syrinx

Quick meaning: Syrinx is a noun meaning (music) A set of panpipes.

Meaning

(music) A set of panpipes.

More Meanings

1. Chiefly in the plural: a narrow channel cut in rock, especially in Ancient Egyptian burial chambers.
2. The voice organ in birds, located at or near where the trachea and the bronchi join.
3. 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.

Example Sentences

Inside, somebody was playing a duet on syrinx and lyre. Lew thought he knew the tune, but then it went off in some direction he couldn't follow.

Pipes will I fashion of the syrinx flag, / That thou mayst always know whither I roam, / When it shall please thee in our quiet home / To listen and think of love.

Actually, to cut a long story short, he began … well, playing with a rather different sort of pipe. Or syrinx, as we called it. He obviously thought he was alone. I was frankly quite shocked. Disgusted. It wasn't that I hadn't seen naked men before, at my aunt's in Cyprus.

In Dr. Sven Hedin's collection there is a fragment of a neck of a jar, which shows a whole circle of Gandharvas performing on drums, harps, syrinxes, etc. Noteworthy is the existence of the syrinx on artware of Eastern Turkestan. That instrument has never, so far as I am aware, been observed in Indian art.

Word Forms

• syrinxes
• syringes

Synonyms for syrinx

Depending on context, synonyms include panpipe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include panpipe, sphinx, satyr, gynosphinx, siren, sirene.

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