adjective
- relating to the lips
- produced with the lips
Usage: medical; anatomical
Usage: linguistics; phonetics
noun
- a speech sound made with the lips
Usage: linguistics; phonetics
Examples
- The doctor examined the patient’s labial tissue for signs of infection.
- Labial muscles control the movement and shape of the lips.
- The sounds ‘p’ and ‘b’ are labial consonants.
- In phonetics class, we studied how labial sounds are formed.
- The linguist identified several labials in the language sample.
- Labial stops require complete closure of the lips.