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
"In toothed whales, air is only used to drive the phonic lips that then, via tissue acceleration, generates a click that propagates through tissue in the nose and then into the water," Elemans added.
From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2023
In 2012, the transmissions switched from analog to digital, reducing the recurrence of other phonic intrusions, to McCown’s chagrin.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2018
One of the forces behind this phonic revolution seems to have been sheer thespian ambition.
From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2012
In both we have "phonic," evidently meaning the same in each case, limited or modified by the preceding part—poly and mono.
From Music Talks with Children by Tapper, Thomas
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