Usually means: Tool for plucking string instruments.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. plectrum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plectrum: Merriam-Webster
  3. plectrum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plectrum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plectrum: Collins English Dictionary
  6. plectrum: Vocabulary.com
  7. plectrum: Wordnik
  8. plectrum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. plectrum: Wiktionary
  10. plectrum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. plectrum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. plectrum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Plectrum, plectrum: Dictionary.com
  14. plectrum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Plectrum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Plectrum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. plectrum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. plectrum: Rhymezone
  19. Plectrum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. plectrum: FreeDictionary.org
  21. plectrum: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. plectrum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. plectrum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Banjo Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plectrum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plectrum: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (plectrum)

▸ noun:  (music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
▸ noun:  (anatomy, zoology) A projection of bone or other stiff tissue, such as the ridges in some insects' stridulatory organs.

Similar:
plectron, pick, plectre, guitar pick, quill, fescue, pegbox, pleyt, thumbpick, plica, more...

Opposite:
fingers, bow, pick, pluck

Types:
flat pick, thumb pick, finger pick, shell pick, tortoise pick, ivory pick, plastic pick, more...

Phrases:
plectrum banjo, more...

Adjectives:
large, small, wooden, golden, long, narrow, triangular, plastic, hard, little, short
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Similar:
plectron, pick, plectre, guitar pick, quill, fescue, pegbox, pleyt, thumbpick, plica, more...

Opposite:
fingers, bow, pick, pluck

Types:
flat pick, thumb pick, finger pick, shell pick, tortoise pick, ivory pick, plastic pick, more...

Phrases:
plectrum banjo, more...

Adjectives:
large, small, wooden, golden, long, narrow, triangular, plastic, hard, little, short



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