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marimbaphone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
marim-ba-phone
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba, but with either wooden or steel keys designed to be bowed as well as played normally, developed by J.C. Deagan in early 20th century United States.

Obsolete

Etymology

From marimba + -phone.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

marimbaphones (plural)

Questions

What does marimbaphone mean?
A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba, but with either wooden or steel keys designed to be bowed as well as played normally, developed by J.C. Deagan in early 20th century United States.
Where does marimbaphone come from?
From marimba + -phone.

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