Definition & Meaning of "petri dish"in English

Petri dish

a shallow, circular, transparent dish with a lid, commonly used in laboratories to culture and study microorganisms

Grammatical Information

Animacy status

Inanimate

Composition

Compound

Countable

singular

not gender specific

Plural form

petri dishes

Examples

The scientist placed the bacterial sample in a Petri dish to observe its growth over several days.

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