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glottalic

glottalic adjective: related to or produced via complete closure of the glottis.

Adjective

glottalic (comparative more glottalic, superlative most glottalic)

  1. Related to or produced via complete closure of the glottis.

Forms of glottalic

comparativemore glottalic
superlativemost glottalic

Origin of glottalic

From glottal + -ic.

Words formed from glottalic

Phrases with glottalic

Questions about glottalic

What does glottalic mean?
Glottalic means related to or produced via complete closure of the glottis.
What part of speech is glottalic?
Glottalic is an adjective.

Words near glottalic in the dictionary

  1. glottal catches
  2. glottal fry
  3. glottal stop
  4. glottal stops
  5. glottal-stopped
  6. glottalic
  7. glottalic airstream
  8. glottalic airstreams
  9. glottalically
  10. glottaling
  11. glottalisation

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