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flehmen
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See also: Flehmen
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From German flehmen, from Upper Saxon German flemmen (“to look spiteful”).
Pronunciation
Verb
flehmen (third-person singular simple present flehmens, present participle flehmening, simple past and past participle flehmened)
- Alternative form of flehm.
- 1994, Lee Boyd, Katherine Albro Houpt, Przewalski's Horse: The History and Biology of an Endangered Species, page 246:
- One can observe mucus dripping from the nostrils of stallions after they flehmen.
Noun
flehmen (countable and uncountable, plural flehmens)
- (especially in the compound "flehmen response") Flaring of the lip in mammals, associated with intensive smelling; flehming.
- 2009, Barbara Triggs, Wombats, page 65:
- During the preliminary phase of courtship between captive animals, Matthew Gaughwin observed flehmen on a number of occasions when the male sniffed intensely at areas of ground where the female had previously urinated and once when the male had sniffed the female's cloacal region.
- 2006, Ernst Knobil, Jimmy D. Neill, Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction, page 2043:
- Ladewig and Hart showed that when a male goat displayed flehmen after investigating female urine containing a tracer material, the urine was found throughout the vomeronasal organ.
- 2003, IUCN Asian Elephant Specialist Group, The Living Elephants : Evolutionary Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation, page 99:
- Behaviors recorded included sniffing, flehmen, blowing, avoidance, and penile erections.
Derived terms
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German
Etymology
Borrowed from Upper Saxon German flemmen (“to look spiteful”).
Pronunciation
Verb
flehmen (weak, third-person singular present flehmt, past tense flehmte, past participle geflehmt, auxiliary haben)
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Descendants
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