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averbal

averbal adjective: not verbal; without words and speech.

Adjective

averbal (not comparable)

  1. Not verbal; without words and speech.
    • It is not yet clear how these birds were able to “count” and to form averbal concepts of numbers without the help of characterizing words.1978, Marvin D. Loflin, James Silverberg, Discourse and Inference in Cognitive Anthropology, page 266

Origin of averbal

From a- + verbal.

Questions about averbal

What does averbal mean?
Averbal means not verbal; without words and speech.
What part of speech is averbal?
Averbal is an adjective.

Words near averbal in the dictionary

  1. averaging out
  2. averaging up
  3. averagings
  4. averah
  5. Averas
  6. averbal
  7. Averbuch
  8. Averch-Johnson effect
  9. Averch-Johnson effects
  10. avercorn
  11. averdupois

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