samisen, shamisen
(noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shamisen (plural shamisens or shamisen)
(musical instrument) A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute.
• jamisen, jabisen (used mainly in reference to archaic forms of the instrument from the Ryukyu Islands)
• sangen
Source: Wiktionary
12 March 2025
(noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
