different between flehmed vs flehmen

English

Verb

flehmed

1. simple past tense and past participle of flehm

English

Alternative forms

• (verb): see flehm
• (noun): flehm; (nonstandard) flehman, Flehmen, Flehman

Etymology

German flehmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fle?m?n/
• Rhymes: -e?m?n
• Homophone: flamen

Verb

flehmen (third-person singular simple present flehmens, present participle flehmening, simple past and past participle flehmened)

1. 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)

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