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live boxes

live boxes is the plural of live box.

Meaning of live box

Noun

live box (plural live boxes)

  1. A box or pen suspended in water to keep aquatic animals alive.
    • A drop of water and sediment oozes out; and when the live-box cover is put on, this drop is flattened out, and the box is set upon the stage of the microscope to be searched with a low power.1856, Philip Henry Gosse, Tenby: A Sea-side Holiday

Questions about live boxes

What is live boxes the plural of?
Live boxes is the plural of live box.

Words near live boxes in the dictionary

  1. live blog
  2. live blogged
  3. live blogging
  4. live blogs
  5. live box
  6. live boxes
  7. live by bread alone
  8. live by the sword, die by the sword
  9. live CD
  10. live CDs
  11. live coding

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