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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and flehmen

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while flehmen is .

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    flehmen

    English

    (Flehmen response)

    Alternative forms

    * (verb) see flehm * (noun) flehm; (nonstandard) flehman, Flehmen, Flehman

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1994 , Lee Boyd, Katherine Albro Houpt, Przewalski's Horse: The History and Biology of an Endangered Species , page 246:
    • One can observe mucus dripping from the nostrils of stallions after they flehmen .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Flaring of the lip in mammals, associated with intensive smelling; flehming.
  • *2009 , Barbara Triggs, Wombats , page 65:
    • During the preliminary phase of courtship between captive animals, Matthew Gaughwin observed flehmen on a number of occasions when the male sniffed intensely at areas of ground where the female had previously urinated and once when the male had sniffed the female's cloacal region.
  • *2006 , Ernst Knobil, Jimmy D. Neill, Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction , page 2043:
    • Ladewig and Hart showed that when a male goat displayed flehmen after investigating female urine containing a tracer material, the urine was found throughout the vomeronasal organ.
  • *2003 , IUCN Asian Elephant Specialist Group, The Living Elephants : Evolutionary Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation , page 99:
    • Behaviors recorded included sniffing, flehmen , blowing, avoidance, and penile erections.