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organ
Found in thesaurus: body part, agency, office, federal agency, government agency, authority, bureau, electronic instrument, periodical, wind instrument, wind, free-reed instrument
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organ
n.
internal body part; musical instrument that makes sound by pressing air through a system of graduated pipes; any instrument that makes sound similar to an organ (but without the use of pipes)
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Organ
Organ may refer to the following:
Biology and medicine
- Organ (anatomy), a collection of different tissues joined in structural unit to serve a common function
- Organ pipe coral, a marine organism native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans
- Stenocereus thurberi, the organ pipe cactus plant
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organ
Noun
1. a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
(hypernym) body part
(hyponym) ovipositor
(part-meronym) lobe
2. a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function; "The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department"
(hypernym) agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authority
3. (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
(synonym) electric organ, electronic organ, Hammond organ
(hypernym) electronic instrument
(classification) music
4. a periodical that is published by a special interest group; "the organ of the communist party"
(hypernym) periodical
(hyponym) house organ
5. wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
(synonym) pipe organ
(hypernym) wind instrument, wind
(part-meronym) keyboard
6. a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
(synonym) harmonium, reed organ
(hypernym) free-reed instrument
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Organ (das)
n.
organ, internal body part; instrument, agent
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organ
n.
organ, member, agency
