VOCAL ORGAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vocal organ mean? 

• VOCAL ORGAN (noun)
  The noun VOCAL ORGAN has 1 sense:

1. any of the organs involved in speech production

  Familiarity information: VOCAL ORGAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOCAL ORGAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the organs involved in speech production

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

organ of speech; speech organ; vocal organ

Hypernyms ("vocal organ" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vocal organ"):

articulator (a movable speech organ)

glottis (the vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated)

larynx; voice box (a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech)