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flehming

flehming is the present participle and gerund of flehm.

Meaning of flehm

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.

Questions about flehming

What is flehming the present participle and gerund of?
Flehming is the present participle and gerund of flehm.

Words near flehming in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flehming (page history and authors); flehm (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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