flehmen

present singular third person flehmens · participle present flehmening · participle past flehmened · past flehmened · alternative flehm · alternative flehman · alternative Flehmen · alternative Flehman

1. alternativeAlternative form of flehm.

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

   1994, Lee Boyd, Katherine Albro Houpt, Przewalski's Horse: The History and Biology of an Endangered Species, page 246

plural flehmens · alternative flehm · alternative flehman · alternative Flehmen · alternative Flehman

1. countableespeciallyuncountableFlaring of the lip in mammals, associated with intensive smelling; flehming.

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

   2003, IUCN Asian Elephant Specialist Group, The Living Elephants : Evolutionary Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation, page 99

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   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.

   2009, Barbara Triggs, Wombats, page 65

   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.

   2006, Ernst Knobil, Jimmy D. Neill, Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction, page 2043

1. no pluralnonstandardNonstandard form of flehmen.