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Definition of Speech organ
1. Noun. Any of the organs involved in speech production.
Generic synonyms: Organ
Specialized synonyms: Articulator, Glottis, Larynx, Voice Box
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speech Organ
Literary usage of Speech organ
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lang's German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied by Hugo Lang, Milton Kayton Meyers (1913)
"... n. an affection of speech Sprach-los, a. speechless, dumb Sprach-losigkeit,/.
speechlessness, dumbness Sprach-organ, n. speech-organ, vocal Sprach-rohr, ..."
2. The Subanu: Studies of a Sub-Visayan Mountain Folk of Mindanao by John Park Finley, William Churchill (1913)
"The palate, the speech-organ which first came under control, is the least flexible
of the speech-organs and is commonly established in the primitive ..."
3. Sissano: Movements of Migration Within and Through Melanesia by William Churchill (1916)
"... their series postulated upon that organ of speech from which they come and in
the other by their quality running across the three speech-organ series. ..."
4. The Volta Review by Volta Bureau (U.S.), Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (1913)
"Thus the speech organ that reveals the vowels has only an auxiliary or concomitant
force in their formation. It follows that the revealing movements must be ..."
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