单词 | song box |
释义 | > as lemmassong box song box n. now rare the syrinx of a bird. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > neck or throat > voice organ or part of syrinx1872 pessulus1890 song box1892 1892 J. A. Thomson Outl. Zool. xxiv. 508 Of importance are the complex muscles associated with the song-box. 1917 Bird-Lore 19 161 One way of answering it is to study the mechanism of the throat and learn the parts of that mysterious little song-box called the syrinx. 2009 J. L. Davis Northwest Nat. Guide 168 The syrinx, or song box as it is sometimes called to distinguish it from the mammalian voice box, is located where the trachea joins the two bronchi at the lungs. < as lemmas |
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