Usually means: Sounds produced with hissing effect.
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  1. sibilant consonant: Vocabulary.com
  2. sibilant consonant: Dictionary.com
  3. Sibilant consonant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. sibilant consonant: Rhymezone
  5. sibilant consonant: FreeDictionary.org
  6. sibilant consonant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  7. sibilant consonant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sibilant consonant: Medical dictionary

(Note: See sibilant_consonants as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (sibilant consonant)

noun:  a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)


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