feature of speech

feature of speech

noun
(linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind 
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Feature of speech is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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