maraca

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

ma=rac=a

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun maraca has 1 sense

maraca(n = noun.artifact) - a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans; often played in pairs;

is a kind of

percussion instrument

percussive instrument

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

maraca, n. a hollow clublike gourd or gourd-shaped container filled with beans etc. and usu. shaken in pairs as a percussion instrument in Latin American music.

Etymology

Port. marac{aacute}, prob. f. Tupi

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THESAURUS

maraca

battery, bells, bones, castanets, celesta, chime, chimes, clappers, crash cymbal, cymbals, finger cymbals, gamelan, glockenspiel, gong, handbells, idiophone, lyra, marimba, metallophone, orchestral bells, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, rattle, rattlebones, sizzler, snappers, tam-tam, tintinnabula, tonitruone, triangle, tubular bells, vibes, vibraphone, xylophone

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