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applosives

applosives is the plural of applosive.

Meaning of applosive

Noun

applosive (plural applosives)

  1. An unreleased plosive, denoted ◌̚ in the IPA.
    • Our recent fiber-optic studies on applosives (unreleased plosives) in the word-final position in Fukienese, a dialect of southern China, revealed interesting findings on larygeneal adjustment (Iwata et al., 1979).1983, Peter F. MacNeilage, editor, The Production of Speech, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN

Questions about applosives

What is applosives the plural of?
Applosives is the plural of applosive.

Words near applosives in the dictionary

  1. applistructures
  2. appln
  3. applns
  4. applosion
  5. applosive
  6. applosives
  7. applot
  8. applotment
  9. applotments
  10. applots
  11. applotted

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