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
The phonic lips consist of connective tissue and fat.
From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2023
They saw that the phonic lips would briefly separate and then collide back together, causing a tissue vibration that would release sound into the surrounding water.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
One of the forces behind this phonic revolution seems to have been sheer thespian ambition.
From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2012
Stations wholly magnetic may be established by adding to the transmitter and two receivers a Sieur phonic call, which will actuate them powerfully, and cause them to produce a noise loud enough for a call.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
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