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pharyngeals

pharyngeals is the plural of pharyngeal.

Meaning of pharyngeal

Adjective

pharyngeal (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the pharynx.
  2. Articulated with the pharynx; a term usually describing a consonant which is articulated by the rear area of the tongue being raised to below the region between the uvula and the pharyngeal wall. The term cannot apply to a plosive or stop consonant.

Questions about pharyngeals

What is pharyngeals the plural of?
Pharyngeals is the plural of pharyngeal.

Words near pharyngeals in the dictionary

  1. pharyngealize
  2. pharyngealized
  3. pharyngealizes
  4. pharyngealizing
  5. pharyngeally
  6. pharyngeals
  7. pharyngectomies
  8. pharyngectomy
  9. pharynges
  10. pharyngic
  11. pharyngismus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pharyngeals (page history and authors); pharyngeal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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