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flehmens

flehmens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of flehmen.

Meaning of flehmen

Noun

flehmen (countable and uncountable, plural flehmens)

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

Questions about flehmens

What is flehmens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Flehmens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of flehmen.

Words near flehmens in the dictionary

  1. flehmen
  2. flehmen response
  3. flehmen responses
  4. flehmened
  5. flehmening
  6. flehmens
  7. flehming
  8. flehms
  9. Fleig
  10. Fleigs
  11. Fleischer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flehmens (page history and authors); flehmen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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