nasial

Adjective

nasal (comparative more nasal, superlative most nasal)

1. (relational) Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
   • Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal...2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 98

   Synonyms:

   nosely, nosey

2. Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
   • nasal vowel
3. Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
   • nasal utterance
4. Sharp, penetrating.

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