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FRICATIVE CONSONANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
Synonyms:
fricative; fricative consonant; spirant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("fricative consonant" is a kind of...):
continuant; continuant consonant (consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fricative consonant"):
sibilant; sibilant consonant (a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh))
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