linguo-dental

See also: linguodental

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

linguo- +‎ dental

Adjective

linguo-dental (not comparable)

(phonetics) (of sound) made when the tip of the tongue extends outside the upper and lower anterior teeth
- 1851, Benjamin Humphrey Smart, The Practice of Elocution: a Series of Exercises for Acquiring the Several […] ‎:
  "Let the linguo-dental breath consonant be heard at the letter or letters in italic."

Translations

made when the tip of the tongue extends outside the upper and lower anterior teeth

Noun

linguo-dental (plural linguo-dentals)

(phonetics) linguo-dental sound

Anagrams

dentolingual

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