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panpipe

noun

Etymology

From Pan (“Greek god of nature”) + pipe.

  1. inherited from pīpian
  2. inherited from pipen
  3. derived from pipa
  4. derived from pipe
  5. derived from pipire
  6. derived from *pīpa✻
  7. inherited from *pīpā✻
  8. inherited from pīpe
  9. inherited from pipe
  10. formed as panpipe — “Pan + pipe”

Definitions

  1. A set of panpipes.

    • No matter that the trombone would seem to be an instrument particularly ill-suited to the purpose; in Mangelsdorff's hands, it might as well be anything from a panpipe to a cello.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for panpipe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA