flehmen

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Flaring of the lip in mammals, associated with intensive smelling; flehming. countable,especially,uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. Alternative form of flehm. alt-of,alternative
    — One can observe mucus dripping from the nostrils of stallions after they flehmen.

词形变化

flehmens present,singular,third-person flehmening participle,present flehmened participle,past flehmened past flehm alternative flehman alternative Flehmen alternative Flehman alternative flehmens plural flehm alternative flehman alternative Flehmen alternative Flehman alternative

词源

词源 1
From German flehmen, from Upper Saxon German flemmen (“to look spiteful”).
词源 2
From German flehmen, from Upper Saxon German flemmen (“to look spiteful”).
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