windpipe

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the tube strengthened by rings of cartilage that carries inhaled air from the larynx toward the lungs; the trachea

   A piece of food entered his windpipe and made him cough.

A compound of wind in its older sense "breath or air" + pipe. The tubular airway was named by analogy with a pipe that conducts a current of air.

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