testtube

test-tube

[test-toob, -tyoob]
adjective
produced in or as if in a test tube; synthetic or experimental.

Origin:
1885–90

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Medical Dictionary

test-tube adj.

  1. Produced or cultivated in a test tube.

  2. Conceived by or developed from fertilization in laboratory apparatus or by artificial insemination.

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Testtube is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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Science Dictionary
test tube   (těst)  Pronunciation Key 
A cylindrical tube of clear glass, usually open at one end and rounded at the other, used as a container for small amounts of a substance in laboratory tests and experiments.
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