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LABIAL CONSONANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips
Synonyms:
labial; labial consonant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("labial consonant" is a kind of...):
consonant (a speech sound that is not a vowel)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "labial consonant"):
bilabial (a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/)
labial stop (a stop consonant that is produced with the lips)
