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    SPEECH ORGAN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of the organs involved in speech productionplay

    Synonyms:

    organ of speech; speech organ; vocal organ

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting body parts

    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)

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