Flehmen

Quick meaning: Flehmen is a verb meaning (especially in the compound "flehmen response") Flaring of the lip in mammals, associated with intensive smelling; flehming.

Meaning

(especially in the compound "flehmen response") Flaring of the lip in mammals, associated with intensive smelling; flehming.

More Meanings

1. Alternative form of flehm.

Example Sentences

One can observe mucus dripping from the nostrils of stallions after they flehmen.

Behaviors recorded included sniffing, flehmen, blowing, avoidance, and penile erections.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• flehmens
• flehmening
• flehmened
• flehm
• flehman
• Flehman

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flehm, flehman, felching, flinching, fleed, phleme.

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