Usually means: Inhalation during speech or sound.
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  1. ingressive: Merriam-Webster
  2. ingressive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ingressive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ingressive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ingressive: Wordnik
  6. ingressive: Wiktionary
  7. ingressive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ingressive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. ingressive: Dictionary.com
  10. ingressive: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See ingressiveness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ingressive)

adjective:  Going or directed inward, entering.
adjective:  Open to entry or examination.
adjective:  (phonetics, of a speech sound) Uttered by drawing air inward through the mouth or nose.
adjective:  (grammar) Aspectually indicating that an action is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
adjective:  (geology) Being a source or channel through which water enters or once entered an area.
noun:  (phonetics) A speech sound in which the air stream is created by drawing air in through the mouth or nose.

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