obstruent


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
obstruent /ˈɒbstrʊənt/
noun Phonetics a fricative or plosive speech sound.
– origin C17: from L. obstruent-, obstruere ‘block up’.
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