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Another word for oral

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oral

modif.

spoken, vocal, verbal, uttered, voiced, lingual, unwritten, phonetic, phonic, articulated, pronounced, phonated, sounded, from the lips, from the mouth, in the mouth, not written, nuncupative, word-of-mouth, viva voce (Latin); see also spoken.

Antonyms written*, unspoken, printed.

oral refers to that which is spoken, as distinguished from that which is written or otherwise communicated an oral report, oral traditions; verbal, though sometimes synonymous with oral, in strict discrimination refers to anything using words, either written or oral, to communicate an idea or feeling a verbal image, verbal skills

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Another word for oral

adjective

Produced by the voice:
articulate, sonant, spoken, uttered, vocal, voiced. See sounds
Expressed or transmitted in speech:
spoken, unwritten, verbal, word-of-mouth. See words

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The oral discussion was either in English or French as happened to be convenient.
Three segments and the procephalic or prae-oral lobes.
Anteriorly this base supports a gurrie or gutter, the pre-oral rim of which is formed by a simple lip, but the post-oral rim is composed of a closely set row of tentacles.
The Indian flying-squirrel (P. oral) leaps with its parachute extended from the higher branches of a tree, and descends first directly and then more and more obliquely, until the flight, gradually becoming slower, assumes a horizontal direction, and finally terminates in an ascent to the branch or trunk of the tree to which it was directed.
The proboscis bears at its extremity a circlet of smaller oral tentacles.

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