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velaric

velaric adjective: produced by combining a closure at the velum and a lowering of the tongue to decrease the pressure in the mouth.

Adjective

velaric (comparative more velaric, superlative most velaric)

  1. Produced by combining a closure at the velum and a lowering of the tongue to decrease the pressure in the mouth.

Forms of velaric

comparativemore velaric
superlativemost velaric

Origin of velaric

From velar + -ic.

Questions about velaric

What does velaric mean?
Velaric means produced by combining a closure at the velum and a lowering of the tongue to decrease the pressure in the mouth.
What part of speech is velaric?
Velaric is an adjective.

Words near velaric in the dictionary

  1. Velardes
  2. Velardi
  3. Velardis
  4. velaria
  5. velarial
  6. velaric
  7. velarisation
  8. velarisations
  9. velarise
  10. velarised
  11. velarises

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