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From Greek For Pan Pipes The Song Making Organ Of Any One Of The Orniths Described In 16 Across Crossword Clue

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noun

• a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together

• the vocal organ of a bird

57%7From the Greek forpan-pipes”, a genus of lilacs with stems once used as shepherds’ pipes
noun

• genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs

• large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes

32%4 Tuned set of organ pipes
noun

• the event of something ending

• the act of stopping something

• a brief stay in the course of a journey

• the state of inactivity following an interruption

• a spot where something halts or pauses

• a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

• a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

• (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes

• a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

• a restraint that checks the motion of something

• an obstruction in a pipe or tube

verb

• come to a halt, stop moving

• put an end to a state or an activity

• stop from happening or developing

• interrupt a trip

• cause to end

• prevent completion

• hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

• seize on its way

• have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

• render unsuitable for passage

• stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

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Similar Clues

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1
From the Greek for “pan-pipes”, a genus of lilacs with stems once used as shepherds’ pipes
Telegraph Giant General Knowledge - 14 Jan 2023
Telegraph Giant General Knowledge / 14 Jan 2023
2
Name working set of organ pipes without pausing
The Guardian Cryptic - 28 Jun 2012
The Guardian Cryptic / 28 Jun 2012
3
Pan pipes
4
Rank of organ pipes
New York Times - 08 Jan 1983
New York Times / 08 Jan 1983
5
Set of organ pipes
New York Times - 05 Jan 1985
New York Times / 05 Jan 1985
6
Tuned set of organ pipes
New York Times - 16 Oct 1981
New York Times / 16 Oct 1981
7
Used in making organ pipes
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