SHAMISEN as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • samisen (what does samisen mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) shamisen is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • stringed instrument (what does stringed instrument mean?)