phonic
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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
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
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)