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Adjective(1) of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips
Noun(1) a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/(2) a consonant that is articulated using both lips(3) /p/ or /b/ or /w/

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(1) In English, w normally represents a voiced bilabial semi-vowel, produced by rounding and then opening the lips before a full vowel, whose value may be affected.(2) I am now moving my lips, which contains four bilabial consonants, is another example: the moment you say it, it becomes true.(3) Finally, contrastive words with the feature were also among the easiest 10 words, and so were words that contained the before bilabial stop feature.(4) The sound that has yet to receive an official symbol is a u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510voiceless bilabial trill preceded by a dental stop, forming a single unitu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(5) Use of this bilabial plosive, as the abrupt Boo!(6) Thai speakers make a three way distinction for bilabials and alveolars.(7) For alveolar affricates it is 0 when is, 10 when is. is 250 for velars, 100 for bilabials and dentalveolars.(8) Proto Iroquoian, and most of the Iroquois daughters prior to European contact, had no bilabials whatsoever.(9) Simply put, Arabic has no u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Psu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb and all native Arabic speakers voice their bilabials as u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Bsu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb, thus it is pretty obvious that any native Arabic speaker with an accent would say the word u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510pumpu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb as the word u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510bumbu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(10) But frustratingly the bilabials were noticeably missing.(11) At the same time, the pattern of variation in low frequency words suggests that a contact-induced change is underway, where bilabials are favored when the English cognate of a Spanish word has a bilabial.