nasal

Of, in, or relating to the nose.

Articulated by lowering the soft palate so that air resonates in the nasal cavities and passes out the nose, as in the pronunciation of the consonants (m), (n), and (ng) or the nasalized vowel of French bon.

Characterized by or resembling a resonant sound produced through the nose.

A nasal consonant.

A nasal part or bone, forming part of the bridge of the nose.

The nosepiece of a helmet.

Of or pertaining to the nose or nostrils; narial; rhinal.

Uttered with resonance in the nose, or with admission of the expelled air into the nasal passages, by relaxation or dropping of the palatal veil that shuts them off from the pharynx.

In entomology, pertaining to the nasus or clypeus.

In ornithology, the depressions upon the bill of a bird in which the external nostrils open. These are usually wellmarked fossæ at or near the base of the bill, on either side of the culmen, naked or filled in with feathers, or arched over by an operculum or nasal scale; their characters are often of zoological importance. See cuts and diagram under bill.