Usually means: Percussion instrument with wooden bars.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. marimba: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. marimba: Merriam-Webster
  3. marimba: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. marimba: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. marimba: Collins English Dictionary
  6. marimba: Vocabulary.com
  7. Marimba, marimba: Wordnik
  8. marimba: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. marimba: Wiktionary
  10. marimba: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. marimba: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. marimba: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Marimba, marimba: Dictionary.com
  14. marimba: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Marimba: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Marimba: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. marimba: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. marimba: Rhymezone
  19. Marimba: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. marimba: FreeDictionary.org
  21. marimba: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. marimba: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Marimba: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. marimba: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Marimba (Spanish): Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. marimba: The Folk File
  3. Marimba: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See marimbas as well.)

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noun:  (music) A percussion instrument with African origins, similar to a xylophone with resonators, but much lower in range and darker in timbre.

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