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cacuminal

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ca⋅cu⋅mi⋅nal

  [kuh-kyoo-muh-nl] Phonetics
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–adjective
1. pronounced with the tip of the tongue curled back toward or against the hard palate; retroflex; cerebral.
–noun
2. a cacuminal sound.
Origin:
1860–65; < L cacūmin- (s. of cacūmen) top, tip + -al 1
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ca·cu·mi·nal   (kə-kyōō'mə-nəl)   
adj.  Articulated with the tip of the tongue turned back and up toward the roof of the mouth; retroflex.

[From Latin cacūmen, cacūmin-, summit, point.]
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