Pronounced: pah-lee-AH-nuh-muhs, adj
Notes: I didn’t know this word, but my guess was correct (that’s rare!)
Yesterday’s word
The word lithophone is “any of various musical instruments in which sound is produced by striking pieces of stone”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1800s
Background / Comments
You probably got the meaning right if you parsed the word into its Greek roots: litho- (stone) and -phone (sound). I really didn’t know that stones could make music.
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