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panpipe

panpipe noun: a set of panpipes.

panpipe: a set of panpipes
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Noun

panpipe (plural panpipes)

  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.1988 May 27, Neil Tesser, “Albert Mangelsdorff”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of panpipe

pluralpanpipes

Origin of panpipe

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

Questions about panpipe

What does panpipe mean?
Panpipe means a set of panpipes.
What part of speech is panpipe?
Panpipe is a noun.
What is the plural of panpipe?
The plural of panpipe is panpipes.

Words near panpipe in the dictionary

  1. panphobes
  2. panphobia
  3. panphobic
  4. panphotometric
  5. panphytotic
  6. panpipe
  7. panpiper
  8. panpipers
  9. panpipes
  10. panpiping
  11. panplacodal

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