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English
A live box visible at low tideChildren observing the contents of a live box
A box or pen suspended in water to keep aquatic animals alive.
1856, Philip Henry Gosse, Tenby: A Sea-side Holiday:
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.
1908, Papers, volume 2, page 302:
The 3 individuals which escaped joined others of their species which had been for some days living apparently unmolested against the flat bottom and sides of a large, floating live-box.
