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retroflex

English

  1. 🔊 bent or curved backward
  2. 🔊 pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
  3. 🔊 articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate
    “Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants”
  4. 🔊 bend or turn backward

Spanish

  1. 🔊 retroflejo retroflex

Similar words

replicate cacuminal retroflexed accented allophone alveolar apical apico-alveolar apico-dental arch articulated articulation aspiration assimilated assimilation back backslide barytone bend bend back bilabial bow broad cacuminal