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lickports

lickports is the plural of lickport.

Meaning of lickport

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

Questions about lickports

What is lickports the plural of?
Lickports is the plural of lickport.

Words near lickports in the dictionary

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

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