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lickport

lickport noun: an opening (typically in a cage) through which a test animal may lick water or other drink.

Noun

lickport (plural lickports)

  1. An opening (typically in a cage) through which a test animal may lick water or other drink
    • No airpuff punishment or active removal of residual water from the lickport was used.2015, Samuel Andrew Hires et al., “Low-noise encoding of active touch by layer 4 in the somatosensory cortex”, in eLife, volume 4, →DOI

Forms of lickport

plurallickports

Origin of lickport

From lick + port.

Questions about lickport

What does lickport mean?
Lickport means an opening (typically in a cage) through which a test animal may lick water or other drink.
What part of speech is lickport?
Lickport is a noun.
What is the plural of lickport?
The plural of lickport is lickports.

Words near lickport in the dictionary

  1. lickometers
  2. Lickorish
  3. Lickorish-Wallace theorem
  4. lickpennies
  5. lickpenny
  6. lickport
  7. lickports
  8. lickpot
  9. lickpots
  10. licks
  11. licks clean

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