monkey lip
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]monkey lip (plural monkey lips)
- singular of monkey lips (“anatomical structure involved in sound production in certain cetaceans”)
- 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:
- 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.