phonic
Example Sentences
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His team’s series of experiments showed that whales produce their wide repertoire of sounds with the same organ — the phonic lips in their nose, which vibrate much like a larynx does in humans.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2023
They also imaged phonic lip operation and anatomy in dead stranded porpoises.
From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2023
The clicks, produced in organs known as phonic lips at rates of up to 1,000 clicks per second, are inaudible to the human ear, but detectable through special, underwater microphones.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2016
One of the forces behind this phonic revolution seems to have been sheer thespian ambition.
From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2012
March 3rd.—Visited the Jesuit's church, and three schools; phonic and Lancasterian method of learning.
From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by Hodgins, J. George (John George)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
