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- noun Plural form of
labial .
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Examples
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Now we come to 'labials', consonants produced with the lips
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Now we come to 'labials', consonants produced with the lips
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"labials," "dentals," and "gutterals," we shall not contest the point with Lucifer, lest we should only expose our own ignorance.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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Bird beaks, he says, can frame labials and dentals , as strange as that may seem.
When Sounds Make Sense Alexander Theroux 2010
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I have heard some ultra-conservatives refer to liberals as "labials."
DNC Launches New Ad Against McCain On Iraq -- RNC Says It's Illegal 2009
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Rhynchocalamus barani is described from Turkey and is diagnosed as different than other Rhynchocalamus species based on color-pattern, upper labials (1 vs. 2), number of ventralia (163-173 vs. 180-240), and dorsalia (17 vs. 15).
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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Its primary distinguisher from O. microlepidotus and O. scutellatus, its sister species taipans, is via one primary temporal scales (vs. two) and six lower labials (vs. seven).
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Me 'ore 'ad a touch of the red labials, painful it was.
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Although, since B and P are labials, you take the B from the broccoi for the first letter and make it a P, shift the initial T from "tomato" to where the M is, remove the M--then you have "potato." posted by Glaukôpis at 5:44 PM
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Although, since B and P are labials, you take the B from the broccoi for the first letter and make it a P, shift the initial T from "tomato" to where the M is, remove the M--then you have "potato." posted by Glaukôpis at 5:44 PM
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