alveolar
/alˈviː.ə.lə/US/ælˈvi.ə.lɚ/
alveolar adjective: relating to the alveoli (small air sacs) of the lungs.
Adjective
alveolar (not comparable)
- Relating to the alveoli (small air sacs) of the lungs.
- Relating to the jaw ridge containing the tooth sockets.
- Formed with the tongue touching or approaching the inner ridge of the gums of the upper front teeth.
- In the case of the Wubuy alveolar versus retroflex contrast for instance, we argue that the phonetic overlap is so great that native listeners can behave as if this were an instance of a good and a 'less good' instance of a single category (CG).2015 December 4, “Discrimination of Multiple Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy (Australia): A Natural Referent Consonant Account”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
- Relating to the glands with secretory cells about a central space.
Noun
alveolar (plural alveolars)
alveolar meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam
alveolar in Tamil
- நுணியண்ண ஒலி, நுனிநாப் பல்லினம், பல்லீறு, நுண்குழிவுகளுடைய, பல்லடி ஒலி, அண்பல் நாவுறப்பிறந்த
alveolar in Marathi
- relating to the lung alveoli
- वायुकोशासंबंधी vāyukośāsambandhī
- formed with the tongue touching or approaching the ridge behind the upper teeth
- दंतमूलीय dantmūlīy, वर्त्स्य vartsya
- relating to alveolar glands
- गुहिका ग्रंथीय guhikā granthīy
- alveolar consonant
- दंतमूलीय dantmūlīy, वर्त्स्य vartsya
alveolar in Urdu
- چھَتے دار, خانَہ دار, کھوکھلے خانوں والا
alveolar in Malayalam
- formed with the tongue touching or approaching the ridge behind the upper teeth
- വർത്സ്യം vaṟtsyaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
- alveolar in Kannada
- ಗಾಳಿಗೂಡಿನ, ಕಿಗ್ಗುಂಡಿಯ
- alveolar in Arabic
- سِنْخِيّ sinḵiyy, لِثَوِيّ liṯawiyy
- alveolar in Myanmar
- မုဒ္ဓဇ muddha.ja.
- Kashmiri
- دۆرتٲلؠ dortạ̄l'
Examples of alveolar in a sentence
- The alveolar cells are cuboidal in shape.
- The need to preserve alveolar bone is paramount and best achieved by atraumatic exodontias including socket compression.
- Alveolar dead space is herein defined as the difference between the physiologic and anatomic dead spaces.
Synonyms of alveolar
Forms of alveolar
| plural | alveolars |
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Origin of alveolar
From alveolus + -ar.
Words formed from alveolar
- alveolar artery
- alveolar bed
- alveolar bone
- alveolar dead space
- alveolarisation
- alveolarity
- alveolarization
- alveolarize
- alveolarly
- alveolar nerve
- alveolar process
- alveolar ridge
- alveolar socket
- apicoalveolar
- apico-alveolar
- basialveolar
- bialveolar
- bronchioalveolar
- bronchioloalveolar
- bronchoalveolar
- dentialveolar
- dentoalveolar
- inferior alveolar artery
- inferior alveolar nerve
- interalveolar
- intraalveolar
- labioalveolar
- lobuloalveolar
- microalveolar
- monoalveolar
- nasoalveolar
- nonalveolar
- palatoalveolar
- palato-alveolar
- parietoalveolar
- perialveolar
- postalveolar
- post-alveolar
- posterior superior alveolar artery
- retroalveolar
- subalveolar
- transalveolar
- tubuloalveolar
- zygomaticoalveolar
Phrases with alveolar
- alveolar beds
- alveolar bones
- alveolar nerves
- alveolar ridges
- alveolar sockets
- alveolar arteries
- alveolar processes
- alveolar dead spaces
- superior alveolar nerve
- inferior alveolar nerves
- superior alveolar nerves
- inferior alveolar arteries
3 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with alveolar
- areolar
- apicoalveolar
- basialveolar
- bialveolar
- bimalleolar
- bronchioloalveolar
- bronchoalveolar
- dentialveolar
- foveolar
- interalveolar
- intermalleolar
- intraalveolar
23 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about alveolar
- What does alveolar mean?
- Alveolar means relating to the alveoli (small air sacs) of the lungs.
- What is alveolar in Tamil?
- Alveolar in Tamil is நுணியண்ண ஒலி, நுனிநாப் பல்லினம், பல்லீறு. See Alveolar meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is alveolar?
- Alveolar can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce alveolar?
- Alveolar is pronounced /alˈviː.ə.lə/ (UK).
Words near alveolar in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: alveolar (page history and authors); alveolar (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); alveolar (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); alveolar (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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