nasal consonant

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nasal consonant (plural nasal consonants)

  1. A consonant sound produced by air moving though the nose with the mouth passage occluded.
    Coordinate term: nasal vowel
    Hypernym: nasal

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References
  • Websters New Collegiate Dictionary 1979
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