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monkey lip

monkey lip is the singular of monkey lips.

Meaning of monkey lips

Noun

monkey lips pl (normally plural, singular monkey lip)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) An anatomical structure in the heads of certain cetaceans involved in the production of clicks and other sounds.
    • Each monkey lips/dorsal bursae complex (MLDB) is associated with one (right and left) air passage. Each complex is composed of at least two fatty bursae that are embedded in the monkey lips along the airway, a cartilagenous “stiffening” rod, and a stout ligament.1990, T.W. Cranford, “Components of a hypothetical odontocete biosonar signal generator”, in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, →DOI, page S4
  2. (plural, plural-normally) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see monkey, lip.

Forms of monkey lip

pluralmonkey lips

Questions about monkey lip

What is monkey lip the singular of?
Monkey lip is the singular of monkey lips.

Words near monkey lip in the dictionary

  1. monkey jar
  2. monkey jars
  3. Monkey King
  4. monkey ladder
  5. monkey ladders
  6. monkey lip
  7. monkey lips
  8. monkey man
  9. monkey meat
  10. monkey men
  11. monkey metal

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