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Samisen Definition & Meaning

samisen
noun
  1. a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum

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What does samisen mean?
a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum
What part of speech is samisen?
Samisen is a noun.

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