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Syrinx   Listen
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Syrinx  n.  (pl. syringes)  
1.
(Mus.) A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; called also pandean pipes.
2.
(Anat.) The lower larynx in birds. Note: 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.






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"Syrinx" Quotes from Famous Books



... translated in the Septuagint by cithara (the ancient lute), sometimes by psalm, sometimes by organ. Sir John Stainer ("Dictionary of Musical Terms," p. 444) says: "It is probable that in its earliest form the ugab was nothing more than a Pan's-pipes or syrinx, but that it gradually developed into a more important instrument." The passage, however, shows that the ugab was known in the time of Moses, who was "learned in all ...
— The Recent Revolution in Organ Building - Being an Account of Modern Developments • George Laing Miller

... was loitering in Arcadia, he saw the beautiful wood-nymph Syrinx. She was hastening to join Diana at the chase, and she herself was as swift and lovely as any bright bird that one longs to capture. So Pan thought, and he hurried after to tell her. But Syrinx turned, ...
— Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew • Josephine Preston Peabody

... Strange lore and quaint fancy he will then impart, in the musical Wessex or Mercian he has learned to speak so naturally; though it may not be till many a mile away that you begin to suspect that you have unwittingly talked with him who chased the flying Syrinx in Arcady and turned the ...
— Pagan Papers • Kenneth Grahame

... reed—"I'm a maid named Syrinx, And there once lived a god named Pan; He liked me, but I didn't like him, So away to ...
— Little Folks (December 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various

... is rather out of fashion. Even the poets often now assume that Clytie is a name that requires an explanation and that Daphne and her flight through the laurel do not bring up immediate memories of Syrinx and the reeds. The Dictionary of Lampri['e]re is covered with dust; and one may quote an episode from Ovid without an answering glance of comprehension from the hearer. This does not imply ignorance; ...
— Confessions of a Book-Lover • Maurice Francis Egan



Words linked to "Syrinx" :   panpipe, complex body part, bird, body structure, pandean pipe, pipe, bodily structure, structure, anatomical structure



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