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

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

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)