Usually means: Sound cluster suggesting specific meaning.
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  1. phonestheme: Merriam-Webster
  2. phonestheme: Wiktionary
  3. Phonestheme: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (phonestheme)

noun:  (linguistics) A sound that, because it appears in a number of words of similar meaning, has a recognizable semantic association.

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