VELAR CONSONANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does velar consonant mean? 

• VELAR CONSONANT (noun)
  The noun VELAR CONSONANT has 1 sense:

1. a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate

  Familiarity information: VELAR CONSONANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VELAR CONSONANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

velar; velar consonant

Hypernyms ("velar consonant" is a kind of...):

consonant (a speech sound that is not a vowel)