Origin: Greek suffix -phone
Xylophone has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.
To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
The word comes from Greek, combining xylo- meaning "of wood" and -phone meaning "sound." It originally referred to an instrument that produces sound using wooden bars.