woodwind
Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.
A kind of
- wind instrument
Kinds of woodwind
- beating-reed instrument
- flute
Related words
- woodwind instrument
- woodwindist
- woodwinder
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “woodwind” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.