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 used video from an endoscope, a thin, tube-like instrument, to image the phonic lips in harbor porpoises and bottlenosed dolphins in captivity.
From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2023
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You revolve around the idea of phonic passing and “code switching”.
From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2018
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
Meaning does not adhere to the phonic presentation of thought, while it does to signs.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
