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nasal

1. adj. of or relating to the nose.

2. adj. denoting a speech sound produced by letting all or most of the airstream pass through the nasal (rather than the oral) cavity, for example, [ng] in sing, or the sound of -on in the French word bon.

3. n. a nasal speech sound.

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