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nasal
What does nasal mean?
nasal (adjective): of or in or relating to the nose.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce nasal?
/ˈneɪzəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does nasal come from?
From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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of or in or relating to the nose
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measured or expressed in numbers
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