ARTICULATORY SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does articulatory system mean? 

• ARTICULATORY SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun ARTICULATORY SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. the system of joints in the body

  Familiarity information: ARTICULATORY SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTICULATORY SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The system of joints in the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("articulatory system" is a kind of...):

system (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts)

Meronyms (parts of "articulatory system"):

articulatio; articulation; joint ((anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion))

Holonyms ("articulatory system" is a part of...):

body; organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))