1. relating to or produced with the tip of the tongue curled back toward the hard palate
Usage: phonetics

Examples

• The cacuminal consonants are common in many Indian languages.
• She studied the cacuminal sounds in Sanskrit pronunciation.
• The linguist explained how cacuminal articulation differs from dental sounds.
• Cacuminal consonants require precise tongue positioning.
• The phonetics textbook included a chapter on cacuminal speech sounds.