inarticulate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   without or deprived of the use of speech or words

   Inarticulate beasts.

2. 2
   adj

   Not articulated in normal words.

   Major Johnstone strove to speak, but the words died in an inarticulate gurgle low in his throat; and Evelyn had only time to start from his knee, and save the dying man from falling to the earth.

From the substantivation of the above adjective through the associated taxon's name (Inarticulata). Used by contrast with Articulata.

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