"dark l" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dark ls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dark l's",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dark ls",
        "2": "dark l's"
      },
      "expansion": "dark l (plural dark ls or dark l's)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Phonology",
          "orig": "en:Phonology",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: clear l"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, Daniel Jones, The Pronunciation of English, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 91:",
          "text": "Occasionally one meets with people in the South of England who do not differentiate between clear l's and dark l's to the extent mentioned in the preceding paragraphs.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A consonantal sound, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant, represented by ⟨ɫ⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet."
      ],
      "id": "en-dark_l-en-noun-mmc7lzN9",
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        [
          "phonology",
          "phonology"
        ],
        [
          "consonantal",
          "consonantal"
        ],
        [
          "velarize",
          "velarize"
        ],
        [
          "alveolar",
          "alveolar"
        ],
        [
          "lateral",
          "lateral"
        ],
        [
          "approximant",
          "approximant"
        ],
        [
          "ɫ",
          "ɫ"
        ],
        [
          "International Phonetic Alphabet",
          "International Phonetic Alphabet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(phonology) A consonantal sound, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant, represented by ⟨ɫ⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "phonology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dark l"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dark ls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dark l's",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dark ls",
        "2": "dark l's"
      },
      "expansion": "dark l (plural dark ls or dark l's)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Phonology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: clear l"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, Daniel Jones, The Pronunciation of English, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 91:",
          "text": "Occasionally one meets with people in the South of England who do not differentiate between clear l's and dark l's to the extent mentioned in the preceding paragraphs.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A consonantal sound, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant, represented by ⟨ɫ⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "phonology",
          "phonology"
        ],
        [
          "consonantal",
          "consonantal"
        ],
        [
          "velarize",
          "velarize"
        ],
        [
          "alveolar",
          "alveolar"
        ],
        [
          "lateral",
          "lateral"
        ],
        [
          "approximant",
          "approximant"
        ],
        [
          "ɫ",
          "ɫ"
        ],
        [
          "International Phonetic Alphabet",
          "International Phonetic Alphabet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(phonology) A consonantal sound, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant, represented by ⟨ɫ⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "phonology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dark l"
}