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SPEECH ORGAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the organs involved in speech production
Synonyms:
organ of speech; speech organ; vocal organ
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("speech organ" is a kind of...):
organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "speech organ"):
articulator (a movable speech organ)
glottis (the vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated)
larynx; voice box (a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech)