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zylophone

zylophone is the archaic form of xylophone.

Meaning of xylophone

Noun

xylophone (plural xylophones)

  1. 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?

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Forms of zylophone

pluralzylophones

Origin of zylophone

See xylophone.

Questions about zylophone

What is zylophone the archaic form of?
Zylophone is the archaic form of xylophone.

Words near zylophone in the dictionary

  1. zylazine
  2. zylofuramine
  3. zylon
  4. zylonite
  5. zylonites
  6. zylophone
  7. zylophones
  8. Zylstra
  9. Zylstras
  10. zym-
  11. zymad

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