XYLOPHONE

marimba, xylophone

(noun) a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

xylophone (plural xylophones)

(musical instrument) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

Verb

xylophone (third-person singular simple present xylophones, present participle xylophoning, simple past and past participle xylophoned)

To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.

To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

Anagrams

• oxyphenol

Source: Wiktionary

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Xy"lo*phone, n. Etym: [Xylo- + Gr. fwnh` sound.]

1. (Mus.)

Definition: An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.

2. An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood. Knight.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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