Dictionary Entry
tympanum
tympanum is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 21 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear.
- 2noun
A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.
- 3noun
One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.
- 4noun
The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table.
- 5noun
The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.
- 6noun
A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.
- 7noun
a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
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- 8noun
the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound
- 9noun
the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear
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