transverse flute

1. 1.

   a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown

   Synonymsflute

   Broaderwoodwind

   Narrowerfifenose flutepiccolo

Questions about transverse flute

What does transverse flute mean?

transverse flute means "a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown".

What is another word for transverse flute?

Close synonyms include flute. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is transverse flute a common word?

transverse flute is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.