User blog comment:BalrogLune/Kamen Rider RWBY/@comment-25405817-20150315133724/@comment-24891101-20150317030453

Of course not. It's a number.

And that is hardly purple prose. Nothing I wrote was overly flowery, merely technical.

Alveolar refers to the alveolar ridge, the ridge in the mouth just behind the upper teeth. Here, it describes the place of articulation of /l/.