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stretch-attend

stretch-attend is the ellipsis of stretch-attend posture.

Meaning of stretch-attend posture

Noun

stretch-attend posture (plural stretch-attend postures)

  1. A posture in which a rodent elongates the head and shoulders forward before retracting them, taken as a sign of anxiety in open-field tests.
    Synonyms:
    stretch-attend

Forms of stretch-attend

pluralstretch-attends

Phrases with stretch-attend

Questions about stretch-attend

What is stretch-attend the ellipsis of?
Stretch-attend is the ellipsis of stretch-attend posture.

Words near stretch-attend in the dictionary

  1. stretch wrap
  2. stretch wrapped
  3. stretch wrapping
  4. stretch wraps
  5. stretch'd
  6. stretch-attend
  7. stretch-attend posture
  8. stretch-attend postures
  9. stretch-attends
  10. stretch-out
  11. stretch-outs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stretch-attend (page history and authors); stretch-attend posture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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