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noun
Flaring of the lip in mammals, associated with intensive smelling; flehming.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, especially, uncountable
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noun
Nonstandard form of flehmen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, no-plural, nonstandard
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verb
Alternative form of flehm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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History
From German flehmen, from Upper Saxon German flemmen (“to look spiteful”).
Capitalized apparently due to the mistaken belief that the word (used in compounds like flehmen response) was an eponym.
