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syrinx|ˈsɪrɪŋks|
Pl. syringes |sɪˈrɪndʒiːz|, also ˈsyrinxes.
[L., a. Gr. σῦριγξ pipe, tube, channel, fistula.]
1. An ancient musical instrument: = pan-pipe. Also attrib.
1606N. B[axter] Sydney's Ourania E 2, The Bittour pyping in a Syrinx Reede. 1777Forster 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. 1818Keats Endym. iv. 686 Pipes will I fashion of the syrinx flag. 1839T. Mitchell Frogs of Aristoph. 542 note, Sharp and piercing syrinx-music. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §387 (ed. 2) 501 Pan appears as..the teacher of the youthful Olympus on the syrinx.
2. Archæol. pl. Narrow rock-cut channels or tunnels, esp. in the burial vaults of ancient Egypt.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 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. 1774Bryant Mythol. I. 505 Subterraneous passages, consisting of labyrinths cut in the rock, like the syringes in Upper Egypt. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §218 The ground full of syrinxes (tombs of Beni-Hassan).
3. Ornith. The organ of voice in birds, also called the lower larynx, at or near the junction of the trachea and bronchi.
1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 178 The syrinx has not more than one pair of intrinsic muscles. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 55 Common Pigeon... The syrinx or lower larynx is simple. |
