1.
[syn: labial consonant, labial]
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. of or relating to the lips of the mouth;
- Example: "labial stops"
2. relating to or near the female labium;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Labial \La"bi*al\, a. [LL. labialis, fr. L. labium lip: cf. F.
labial. See Lip.]
1. Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.
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2. (Mus.) Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.
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3. (Phonetics)
(a) Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b,
p, m, w.
(b) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip
opening, as [=oo] (f[=oo]d), [=o] ([=o]ld), etc., and
as eu and u in French, and ["o], ["u] in German. See
Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 11, 178.
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4. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial
palpi of insects. See Labium.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Labial \La"bi*al\, n.
1. (Phonetics) A letter or character representing an
articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the
lips, as b, p, w.
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2. (Mus.) An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue
pipe.
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3. (Zool.) One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish
or reptile.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
labial
adj 1: of or relating to the lips of the mouth; "labial stops"
2: relating to or near the female labium
n 1: a consonant whose articulation involves movement of the
lips [syn: labial consonant, labial]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "labial":
accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated,
assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, 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,
labialization, labiate, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal,
lateral, lax, light, lingual, lipped, 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