Windpipe

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Windpipe \Wind"pipe`\, n. (Anat.)
     The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the
     trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under {Lung}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  windpipe
       n : membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys
           inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi [syn: {trachea}]