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English word xylophone comes from English -phone, English xylo- (Wood.)
-phone (English)
A device related to the telephone.. A device that makes a sound.. A speaker of a certain language.. A type of sound.
xylo- (English)
Wood.
xylophone (English)
(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. To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.. To play a [...]