Usually means: Tube carrying air to lungs.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word Windpipe:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. windpipe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. windpipe: Merriam-Webster
  3. windpipe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. windpipe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. windpipe: Collins English Dictionary
  6. windpipe: Vocabulary.com
  7. Windpipe, windpipe: Wordnik
  8. windpipe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. windpipe: Wiktionary
  10. windpipe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. windpipe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. windpipe: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. windpipe: Dictionary.com
  14. windpipe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. windpipe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Windpipe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Windpipe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. windpipe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. windpipe: Rhymezone
  20. Windpipe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. windpipe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. windpipe: FreeDictionary.org
  23. windpipe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. windpipe: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. windpipe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. windpipe: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Windpipe: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Windpipe: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. windpipe: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. windpipe: Medical dictionary
  8. Windpipe: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Windpipe: Merck Manuals

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Definitions from Wiktionary (windpipe)

▸ noun:  The trachea.
▸ noun:  Any duct for air or other gas.
▸ noun:  (rare) A section of road or bridleway which has a reputation for having strong crosswinds or localized wind swirls.
▸ noun:  (rare, British, slang) The anus.

Similar:
trachea, airway, bronchus, trache, trach, tracheogenesis, bronchial tube, trachealis, thoracic wall, tracheotome, more...

Opposite:
esophagus, trachea, bronchus

Types:
trachea, more...

Adjectives:
own, human, long, crushed, upper, large, whole, constricted, magic, open, main
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Similar:
trachea, airway, bronchus, trache, trach, tracheogenesis, bronchial tube, trachealis, thoracic wall, tracheotome, more...

Opposite:
esophagus, trachea, bronchus

Types:
trachea, more...

Adjectives:
own, human, long, crushed, upper, large, whole, constricted, magic, open, main



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