Bilabial

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  bilabial \bi*la"bi*al\ adj. (Linguistics)
     produced using both lips; -- said of a consonant. As,
     bilabial fricatives. See {labial}, adj. and {bilabial, n.
     [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  bilabial \bi*la"bi*al\ n. (Linguistics)
     a consonant that is articulated using both lips, as p or b or
     w.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bilabial
       adj : of or relating to or being a speech sound that is
             articulated using both lips; "bilabial fricatives"
       n : a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/
           or /w/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "bilabial":
     accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
     apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated,
     assimilation, back, barytone, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral,
     check, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental,
     diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, epenthetic vowel,
     explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization,
     guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labialization,
     labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual,
     liquid, low, manner of articulation, mid, modification,
     monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow,
     nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized,
     parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization,
     pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch,
     pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, retroflex, rounded,
     segmental phoneme, semivowel, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound,
     stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus,
     syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic,
     transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded,
     unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced,
     voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel,
     vowellike, weak, wide