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phonic

[fon-ik, foh-nik] / ˈfɒn ɪk, ˈfoʊ nɪk /
ADJECTIVE
acoustic
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
auricular
Synonyms






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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

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

But controversy still goes on as to whether children shall begin with word wholes or with the phonic sounds.

From The Child under Eight by Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach)




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