syrinx

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: syr=inx

CIDE DICTIONARY

syrinx, n. [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