HARMONICA


Meaning of HARMONICA in English

/hahr mon"i keuh/ , n.

1. Also called mouth organ . a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones.

2. any of various percussion instruments that use graduated bars of metal or other hard material as sounding elements.

[ n. use of fem. of L harmonicus HARMONIC; in the form armonica ( ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .