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alveolar

English

  1. 🔊 pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs
  2. 🔊 pertaining to the sockets of the teeth or that part of the upper jaw
    “alveolar processes”
  3. 🔊 a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge

Spanish

  1. 🔊 alveolar alveolar

Similar words

alveolar consonant dental consonant dental accented alveolate apical apico-alveolar apico-dental articulated assimilated back barytone bilabial broad cacuminal central cerebral checked close consonant consonantal continuant dental dented