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WOODWIND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
Synonyms:
wood; woodwind; woodwind instrument
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("woodwind" is a kind of...):
wind; wind instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath)
Meronyms (parts of "woodwind"):
finger hole (one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument; pitch changes when a finger covers it)
thumbhole (the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodwind"):
beating-reed instrument; reed; reed instrument (a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed)
flute; transverse flute (a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown)
