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flehms

flehms is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 flehms

What is flehms the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Flehms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of flehm.

Words near flehms in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flehms (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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