English

Noun

Flehmen ‎(plural not attested)

1. Nonstandard form of flehmen.

English

Alternative forms

• (verb): see flehm
• (noun): flehm; (nonstandard) flehman, Flehmen, Flehman

Verb

flehmen ‎(third-person singular simple present flehmens, present participle flehmening, simple past and past participle flehmened)

1. 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

flehmen ‎(plural flehmens)

1. (chiefly 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.