lickport

English

Etymology

lick +‎ port

Noun

lickport (plural lickports)

1. An opening (typically in a cage) through which a test animal may lick water or other drink
   • 2015, Samuel Andrew Hires et al., “Low-noise encoding of active touch by layer 4 in the somatosensory cortex”, in eLife‎^[1], volume 4, →DOI:

     No airpuff punishment or active removal of residual water from the lickport was used.