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bi•la•bi•al



Pronunciation: (bī-lā'bē-ul), [key] Phonet.

adj.
produced with the lips close together or touching: the lips touch at one phase of the production of the bilabial consonants p, b, and m; they do not for the bilabial w.

n.
a bilabial speech sound.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

Bikolbilabiate
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