petri dish

[ pee-tree ]

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noun

a shallow, circular, glass or plastic dish with a loose-fitting cover over the top and sides, used for culturing bacteria and other microorganisms.

Petri dish

/ ˈpɛtrɪ /

a shallow circular flat-bottomed dish, often with a fitting cover, used in laboratories, esp for producing cultures of microorganisms

petri dish

/ pē′trē /

A shallow, circular dish with a loose cover, usually made of transparent glass or plastic and used to grow cultures of microorganisms. The petri dish is named after German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri (1852–1921).

1890–95; named after J. R. Petri (died 1921), German bacteriologist

C19: named after J. R. Petri (1852–1921), German bacteriologist

It remains the receptive petri dish to any and all sorts of colonies of humanity that finally managed to find one another.

“Roger basically had a petri dish to see what worked on cable,” Griffin says.

My immune system was shot; my body had become a petri dish for every new virus of the week.

The Holy Land has become a petri dish for hate, and separating the Israelis and the Palestinians has become nearly impossible.

But Lebanon was a tiny country where the fighting could be contained like a plague in a Petri dish.

Petri dish or cleaned photographic plates for sputum examination.

Pour each tube into a separate Petri dish and allow it to solidify.

Transfer each slice of egg by means of a pair of sterilised forceps to a Petri dish or large capsule.

Liquefy a tube of gelatine (or agar) by heat, pour it into a Petri dish, and allow it to solidify.

As soon as dry, transfer the cover-slip films to the ventilated Petri dish by means of sterile forceps.

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