flehmen
See also: Flehmen
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From German flehmen, from Upper Saxon German flemmen (“to look spiteful”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
flehmen (third-person singular simple present flehmens, present participle flehmening, simple past and past participle flehmened)
- 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 edit
flehmen (countable and uncountable, plural flehmens)
- (especially in the compound "flehmen response") Flaring of the lip in mammals, associated with intensive smelling; flehming.
- 2009, Barbara Triggs, Wombats, page 65:
- 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.
- 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.
- 2003, IUCN Asian Elephant Specialist Group, The Living Elephants : Evolutionary Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation, page 99:
- Behaviors recorded included sniffing, flehmen, blowing, avoidance, and penile erections.
Derived terms edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Upper Saxon German flemmen (“to look spiteful”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
flehmen (weak, third-person singular present flehmt, past tense flehmte, past participle geflehmt, auxiliary haben)
Conjugation edit
infinitive | flehmen | ||||
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present participle | flehmend | ||||
past participle | geflehmt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich flehme | wir flehmen | i | ich flehme | wir flehmen |
du flehmst | ihr flehmt | du flehmest | ihr flehmet | ||
er flehmt | sie flehmen | er flehme | sie flehmen | ||
preterite | ich flehmte | wir flehmten | ii | ich flehmte1 | wir flehmten1 |
du flehmtest | ihr flehmtet | du flehmtest1 | ihr flehmtet1 | ||
er flehmte | sie flehmten | er flehmte1 | sie flehmten1 | ||
imperative | flehm (du) flehme (du) |
flehmt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.