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Noun: zithern  zi-thurn
  1. A musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board, laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers
    "The folk musician played a haunting melody on the zithern";
    - zither, cither

Derived forms: zitherns

Type of: stringed instrument

Encyclopedia: Zithern