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Definition of "labial" []
- Of or relating to the lips or labia. (adjective)
- Linguistics Articulated mainly by closing or partly closing the lips, as the sounds (b), (m), or (w). (adjective)
- Linguistics A labial consonant. (noun)
- Music See flue1. (noun)
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Use "labial" in a sentence
- "Mexico. 11 The language of Nootka is by no means harsh or disagreeable; for it abounds, upon the whole, rather with what may be called labial and dental, than with guttural sounds."
- "El is the article; but when it precedes a word beginning with a letter called a labial, it takes the sound of that letter."
- "Of the two cusps the labial is the larger and more prominent."
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