organ pipe

English

Organ pipes of Weissenau Abbey

Etymology

From organ +‎ pipe.

Noun

organ pipe (plural organ pipes)

1. A tuned metal or wooden tube connected mechanically or electrically to an organ console.
   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 24:

     In an inner mountain land where none hath come he hath carved his organ pipes out of the mountains, and there when the winds, his servants, come in from all the world he maketh the melody of Limpang-Tung.

2. An organ pipe cactus.

Derived terms

• organ pipe cactus
• organ pipe mud dauber

Translations

tube part of an organ (instrument)

• Chinese: 風琴管／风琴管 m
• Dutch: orgelpijp (nl) f
• Macedonian: дудлец m (dudlec)
• Russian: органная труба m (organnaja truba)
• Spanish: tubo de órgano m

Anagrams

• pipe organ