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xylo·phone (zī′lə fōn′)

noun

a musical percussion instrument consisting of a series of wooden bars graduated in length so as to sound the notes of the scale when struck with mallets

Etymology: xylo- + -phone

Related Forms:

  • xylophonist xy′·lo·phon′·ist (-fō′nist, zī läf′ə nist) noun

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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