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syrinx

a bird's voice box

Today this word meansThe organ birds sing with — their counterpart to the human larynx.

From Syrinx, the nymph who became reeds while fleeing Pan. The pipe made from those reeds is the panpipe.

A bird's syrinx sits where the windpipe forks, letting it produce two different sounds at once, one from each side.

Syringe shares the root — the shape of a hollow reed tube is the common thread.

Where it comes from