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phonic

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

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

Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You revolve around the idea of phonic passing and “code switching”.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2018

Adj. hearing &c. v.; auditory, auricular, acoustic; phonic.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark




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