Usually means: Voice-producing organ in birds.
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We found 10 dictionaries that define the word syrinxes:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. syrinxes: Merriam-Webster
  2. syrinxes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. syrinxes: Collins English Dictionary
  4. syrinxes: Vocabulary.com
  5. syrinxes: Wiktionary
  6. syrinxes: Dictionary.com
  7. syrinxes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. syrinxes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. syrinxes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. syrinxes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See syrinx as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (syrinx)

noun:  (music) A set of panpipes.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  (archaeology, Egyptology) Chiefly in the plural: a narrow channel cut in rock, especially in Ancient Egyptian burial chambers.
noun:  (neurology, pathology) Any of several abnormal tube-shaped structures in the body, especially a rare, fluid-filled neuroglial cavity in the brain stem or within the spinal cord.
noun:  (ornithology, zootomy) The voice organ in birds, located at or near where the trachea and the bronchi join.
▸ Also see syrinx


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