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6 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together
noun the vocal organ of a bird
originLearned borrowing from Latin sȳrinx (“reed; reed pipe, panpipes”), from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “panpipes; pipe-shaped object”), from Pre-Greek. Doublet of syringe. The plural form syringes is a learned borrowing from Latin sȳringes.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0