nasal consonant

English

Noun

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nasal consonant (plural nasal consonants)

  1. A consonant sound produced by air moving though the nose with the mouth passage occluded.
    Hypernyms: nasal, sonorant, resonant
    Coordinate term: nasal vowel

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References

  • Websters New Collegiate Dictionary 1979

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