Any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The viol, viola da gamba, or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings. Wikipedia

Any of a family of stringed musical instruments, informally called a gamba Wikipedia Disambiguation

Family of bowed, fretted and stringed musical instruments Wikidata

One of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments Wikidata

Any one of a family of bowed, fretted, stringed musical instruments developed in the 1400s and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. OmegaWiki

A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold. Wiktionary

Stringed instrument. Wiktionary (translation)