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dental fricatives

dental fricatives is the plural of dental fricative.

Meaning of dental fricative

Noun

dental fricative (plural dental fricatives)

  1. The phoneme produced when the tongue touches the upper teeth and air is blown. It can be voiced (ð) or unvoiced (θ).

Questions about dental fricatives

What is dental fricatives the plural of?
Dental fricatives is the plural of dental fricative.

Words near dental fricatives in the dictionary

  1. dental flosses
  2. dental formula
  3. dental formulae
  4. dental formulas
  5. dental fricative
  6. dental fricatives
  7. dental gold
  8. dental golds
  9. dental hygienist
  10. dental hygienists
  11. dental identification

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