cacuminal

ADJECTIVE
  1. pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
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How To Use cacuminal In A Sentence

  • —The folium vermis (folium cacuminis; cacuminal lobe) is a short, narrow, concealed band at the posterior extremity of the vermis, consisting apparently of a single folium, but in reality marked on its upper and under surfaces by secondary fissures. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
  • Her cacuminal speech prods the back of my neck, my face turned to a corner, wedged, stiff, stuck fast, lodged within the confines of her retroflexed monologue - this verse is addressed to both myself and the boy (who keeps slapping blackboard grime like muddy shoes).
  • A similar abundance prevails in respect of all the four retroflex and cacuminal plosives, ` t ’, ` th ’, ` d', ` dh ’, as well as the retroflex plosive nasal, ` n ’, whose sounds are identical with those of the five dental, alveolar and nasal plosives, ` t ’, ` th ’, ` d', ` dh’ and ` n ’, that follow in the Devanagari alphabet.
  • The linguist, who has published an Italian-Sicilian Dictionary, also maintains that Sicilian is not neo-Latin, and cites the fact that it has only the three vowels ‘a’, ‘i’, and ‘u’, and has a number of cacuminal consonants.
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