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marimba

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ma=rim=ba

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun marimba has 1 sense

marimba(n = noun.artifact) xylophone - a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets; Array

is a kind of percussion instrument, percussive instrument

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CIDE DICTIONARY

marimba, n. [Pg.].

A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck. Knight. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

marimba, n.
1 a xylophone played by natives of Africa and Central America.
2 a modern orchestral instrument derived from this.

Etymology

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THESAURUS

marimba

battery, bells, bones, castanets, celesta, chime, chimes, clappers, crash cymbal, cymbals, finger cymbals, gamelan, glockenspiel, gong, handbells, idiophone, lyra, maraca, 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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