xylophone

From xylo- (“of wood”) +‎ -phone (“sound”).

• enPR: zīʹlə-fōn', IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪ.lə.ˌfəʊn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/

• Audio (GA)

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• Hyphenation: xy‧lo‧phone

xylophone (plural xylophones)

1. (music) 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.

   All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?

• glockenspiel
• marimba
• vibraphone

• Vienna Symphony Orchestra. "Xylophone".

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

1. To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
2. To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

• oxyphenol

From xylo- +‎ -phone.

• IPA^(key): /ɡzi.lɔ.fɔn/, /ksi.lɔ.fɔn/

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xylophone m (plural xylophones)

1. xylophone

• “xylophone” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).