ORINASAL PHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orinasal phone mean? 

• ORINASAL PHONE (noun)
  The noun ORINASAL PHONE has 1 sense:

1. a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels)

  Familiarity information: ORINASAL PHONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORINASAL PHONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

orinasal; orinasal phone

Hypernyms ("orinasal phone" is a kind of...):

phone; sound; speech sound ((phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language)