SPEECH ORGAN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any of the organs involved in speech production

Synonyms:

organ of speech; speech organ; vocal organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("speech organ" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "speech organ"):

articulator (a movable speech organ)

glottis (the vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated)

larynx; voice box (a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech)