Usually means: Articulated with back of tongue.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. velar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. velar: Merriam-Webster
  3. velar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. velar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. velar: Collins English Dictionary
  6. velar: Vocabulary.com
  7. velar: Wordnik
  8. velar: Wiktionary
  9. velar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. velar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. velar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. velar: Dictionary.com
  13. velar (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Velar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Velar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. velar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. velar: Rhymezone
  18. Velar, velar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. velar: FreeDictionary.org
  20. velar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. velar: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Velar: Lexicon of Linguistics

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. velar: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. velar: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. velar: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (velar)

▸ adjective:  (phonetics) Articulated at the velum or soft palate.
▸ adjective:  (mycology) Referring to a veil or velum.
▸ noun:  (phonetics) A sound articulated at the soft palate.

Similar:
hard, velaric, labiovelar, velal, velopharyngeal, Velic, labial, soft, open, linguolabial, more...

Opposite:
labial, dental, alveolar

Types:
hard, soft, uvular, pharyngeal, epiglottal, more...

Phrases:
velar nasal, Velar consonant, Voiceless velar fricative, Voiced velar fricative, Voiced velar nasal, more...

Adjectives:
voiceless, final, initial, palatal, labial, labialized, palatalized, dental, voiced, labio, front


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Similar:
hard, velaric, labiovelar, velal, velopharyngeal, Velic, labial, soft, open, linguolabial, more...

Opposite:
labial, dental, alveolar

Types:
hard, soft, uvular, pharyngeal, epiglottal, more...

Phrases:
velar nasal, Velar consonant, Voiceless velar fricative, Voiced velar fricative, Voiced velar nasal, Range Rover Velar, Voiced velar approximant, Voiced velar plosive, Voiceless velar plosive, more...

Adjectives:
voiceless, final, initial, palatal, labial, labialized, palatalized, dental, voiced, labio, front



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