单词 | syrinx |
释义 | syrinxn. 1. An ancient musical instrument: = panpipe n. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > pan-pipes fristelec1400 fretel1480 quill1567 syrinx1606 mouth organ1670 sheng1795 panpipe1805 pandean harmonica1807 pandean pipe1814 shō1888 1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. E2 The Bittour pyping in a Syrinx Reede. 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 456 A new musical instrument, consisting of eight, nine or ten slender reeds... Its resemblance to the syrinx, or Pan's flute of the civilized Greeks. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 192 Pipes will I fashion of the syrinx flag. 1839 T. Mitchell in Aristophanes Frogs 542 (note) Sharp and piercing syrinx-music. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §387. 501 Pan appears as..the teacher of the youthful Olympus on the syrinx. 2. Archaeology. plural. Narrow rock-cut channels or tunnels, esp. in the burial vaults of ancient Egypt. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel crypt1583 burrow1615 gallery1630 syrinx1678 rock hole1738 cellarwaya1762 tunnel1765 heading1811 subpassage1822 subway1822 subway1831 underpass1904 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > burial-chamber > [noun] > vault > part of ancient Egyptian syrinx1678 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 322 The Former of these Two Hermes..wrote in Hieroglyphicks upon Pillars, ἐν τῆ Συριγγικῆ γῆ, (as the learned Valesius conjectures it should be read, instead of Σηριαδικῆ.) Which Syringes what they were, Am. Marcellinus will instruct us. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 505 Subterraneous passages, consisting of labyrinths cut in the rock, like the syringes in Upper Egypt. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §218 The ground full of syrinxes (tombs of Beni-Hassan). 3. Ornithology. The organ of voice in birds, also called the lower larynx, at or near the junction of the trachea and bronchi. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > neck or throat > voice organ or part of syrinx1872 pessulus1890 song box1892 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 178 The syrinx has not more than one pair of intrinsic muscles. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 55 Common Pigeon... The syrinx or lower larynx is simple. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1606 |
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