BILABIAL


Meaning of BILABIAL in English

/buy lay"bee euhl/ , Phonet.

adj.

1. produced with the lips close together or touching: the lips touch at one phase of the production of the bilabial consonants p, b, and m; they do not for the bilabial w.

n.

2. a bilabial speech sound.

[ 1860-65; BI- 1 + LABIAL ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .