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PLECTRUM

\plˈɛktɹəm], \plˈɛktɹəm], \p_l_ˈɛ_k_t_ɹ_ə_m]\

Definitions of PLECTRUM

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science

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A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

A small, flat, usually oval, piece of horn, celluloid, etc., used by a player on certain stringed instruments, such as the mandolin, to strike the strings.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

The styloid process of the temporal bone. Also, the uvula, and the tongue. - Castelli.

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

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