Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi;
[syn: trachea, windpipe]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
windpipe
n 1: membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys
inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi [syn: trachea,
windpipe]