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monkey lip en · NOUN
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(form-of, singular) singular of monkey lips (“anatomical structure involved in sound production in certain cetaceans”)
The photo inset presents the actual surface of the ventral monkey lip of an adult sperm whale (photo width represents 5 cm) projected on the same relative position and size in the drawing showing the whitish band of the groove and tongue complex.
2016, Stefan Huggenberger, Michel Andre, Helmut HA Oelschlaeger, “The nose of the sperm whale: overviews of functional design, structural homologies and evolution”, in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, volume 96, number 4, page 787:
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