flehmen
/ˈfleɪmən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative form of flehm.
noun
Flaring of the lip in mammals, associated with intensive smelling; flehming.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Nonstandard form of flehmen.
Example Sentences
- "One can observe mucus dripping from the nostrils of stallions after they flehmen."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Behaviors recorded included sniffing, flehmen, blowing, avoidance, and penile erections."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: flehmen, flemmen