Word.ws English Dictionary

lithophones

lithophones is the plural of lithophone.

Meaning of lithophone

Noun

lithophone (plural lithophones)

  1. Any musical instrument in which sound is produced by percussion of a stone.
    • Lithophones are the oldest of the bar idiophones. We have already mentioned the ten note neolithic lithophone from Vietnam, but such instruments have died out.1970, Musical instruments: handbook to the Museum's collection, Horniman Museum, →OCLC, page 25
  2. (dated) A device by which the presence of bladder stones can be audibly detected.
    • It is needless to dwell on the utility of the lithophone for finding vesical calculi and small fragments after lithotrity. The instrument in figured in Le Progrés Medica, 3 April, 1880.1880, Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 26, page 126

Questions about lithophones

What is lithophones the plural of?
Lithophones is the plural of lithophone.

Words near lithophones in the dictionary

  1. lithophiles
  2. lithophilia
  3. lithophilic
  4. lithophilous
  5. lithophone
  6. lithophones
  7. lithophotography
  8. lithophysa
  9. lithophysae
  10. lithophyse
  11. lithophyses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lithophones (page history and authors); lithophone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lithophones.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lithophones. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.