harmonica
noun/hɑːˈmɒnɪkə/
/hɑːrˈmɑːnɪkə/
(British English or North American English, old-fashioned mouth organ)
- a small musical instrument that you hold against your lips and play by blowing or taking air in through itTopics Musicc2Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Latin, feminine singular or neuter plural of harmonicus ‘musical’ from Greek harmonikos, from harmonia ‘joining, concord’, from harmos ‘joint’.
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