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plosive speech sound

 
Noun plosive speech sound has 1 sense
  1. stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive - a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
    --1 is a kind of consonant
    --1 has parts: implosion; plosion, explosion
    --1 has particulars:
     labial stop; glottal stop, glottal plosive, glottal catch; suction stop, click
plonk down plonker plop plopped plopping plosion plosive plosive consonant plosive speech sound plot plot element plot line plot of ground plot out plot summary plote ploter

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