SONORANT
- voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w)
- speech sound characterized by relatively free air passage through some channel, as a vowel, semivowel, liquid, or nasal
- of, pertaining to, or having the properties of a sonorant
- a type of voiced sound [n SONORANTS]