different between flehmen vs 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.

English

Alternative forms

• (verb): flehmen
• (noun): see flehmen

Etymology

From German flehmen.

Verb

flehm (third-person singular simple present flehms, present participle flehming, simple past and past participle flehmed)

1. (intransitive) To exhibit the flehmen response, i.e., to draw back the lips, allowing scent to reach the Jacobson’s organ, an auxiliary olfactory organ found in many animals.

Noun

flehm (plural flehms)

1. Alternative form of flehmen