xylophone
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.
Synonyms
- marimba
A kind of
- percussion instrument
Related words
- concert xylophone
- metal xylophone
- stone xylophone
- xylophonist
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “xylophone” 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.