1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the pharynx; in the region Of the pharynx.

2. (n.) A pharyngeal bone or cartilage; especially, one of the lower pharyngeals, which belong to the rudimentary fifth branchial arch in many fishes, or one of the upper pharyngeals, or pharyngobranchials, which are the dorsal elements in the complete branchial arches.

accented allophone alveolar apical apico-alveolar apico-dental articulated articulation aspiration assimilated assimilation back barytone bilabial broad cacuminal central cerebral check checked close consonant consonantal continuant dental diphthong dissimilated dissimilation dorsal epenthetic vowel explosive flat front glide glossal glottal glottalization guttural hard heavy high intonated labial labialization labiodental labiovelar laryngeal lateral lax light lingual liquid low manner of articulation mid modification monophthong monophthongal morphophoneme mute muted narrow nasal nasalized occlusive open oxytone palatal palatalized parasitic vowel peak pharyngealization pharyngealized phone phoneme phonemic phonetic phonic pitch pitched plosive posttonic prothetic vowel retroflex rounded segmental phoneme semivowel soft sonant sonority speech sound stop stopped stressed strong surd syllabic syllabic nucleus syllabic peak syllable tense thick throaty tonal tonic transition sound triphthong twangy unaccented unrounded unstressed velar vocable vocalic vocoid voice voiced voiced sound voiceless voiceless sound voicing vowel vowellike weak wide