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Labiodental

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Articulated with the lower lip and upper teeth, as the sounds (f) and (v).

n. A labiodental sound.

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adj. articulated with the lower lip and upper teeth

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth, as f and v.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Formed or pronounced by the coöperation of the lips and the teeth.

n. An articulate sound produced by the coöperation of the lips and the teeth, or the letter or character representing such sound. The labiodentals are f and verb

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a consonant whose articulation involves the lips and teeth

Word Usage

"By that time, Olson apparently was still convinced that this phoneme wasn't a labio-dental flap: The bilabial flap is a sound very similar to what is elsewhere called the labiodental flap, but the articulation is slightly different."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

consonant

Cross Reference

dentolabial