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interdental
(redirected from interdentals)

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in·ter·den·tal  (ntr-dntl)
adj.
1. Located or made for use between the teeth.
2. Pronounced with the tip of the tongue between the teeth, as () in that or (th) in thumb.
n.
An interdental consonant.

inter·dental·ly adv.

interdental [ˌɪntəˈdɛntəl]
adj
1. (Medicine / Dentistry) situated between teeth
2. (Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) Phonetics (of a consonant) pronounced with the tip of the tongue lying between the upper and lower front teeth, as for the th sounds in English thin and then
interdentally  adv


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