LABIAL CONSONANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does labial consonant mean? 

• LABIAL CONSONANT (noun)
  The noun LABIAL CONSONANT has 1 sense:

1. a consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips

  Familiarity information: LABIAL CONSONANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LABIAL CONSONANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

labial; labial consonant

Hypernyms ("labial consonant" is a kind of...):

consonant (a speech sound that is not a vowel)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "labial consonant"):

bilabial (a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/)

labial stop (a stop consonant that is produced with the lips)