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单词 syrinx
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syrinxn.

Brit. /ˈsɪrɪŋks/, U.S. /ˈsɪrɪŋks/
Forms: Plural syringes /sɪˈrɪndʒiːz/, also ˈsyrinxes.
Etymology: Latin, < Greek σῦριγξ pipe, tube, channel, fistula.
1. An ancient musical instrument: = panpipe n. Also attributive.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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