petri dish

Shiwakoti experimented with different exit scenarios using square petri dishes that had exits located in the middle of a side and in the corner.
Want to Get Out Alive? Follow the Ants - Issue 95: Escape|Conor Myhrvold|January 28, 2021|Nautilus
Before we could grow cultures in petri dishes and mix compounds in test tubes, Mother Nature was the world’s pharmacy.
Four plants that are scientifically proven to be therapeutic|Sandra Gutierrez G.|January 25, 2021|Popular-Science
While lab-grown meat was busy trying to find its way out of the petri dish, plant-based meat substitutes were undergoing a revolution.
Your first lab-grown burger is coming soon—and it’ll be “blended”|Katie McLean|December 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
She went back to her makeshift lab, placed a piece of udder in a petri dish, doused it with amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and salts, and carefully deposited it in an incubator.
Startups are racing to reproduce breast milk in the lab|Katie McLean|December 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review

Forty mosquitoes of each species were released into petri dishes coated in the original deltamethrin dust spray, and another 40 into a dish covered in the new form of the insecticide.
Heating deltamethrin may help it kill pesticide-resistant mosquitoes|Maria Temming|October 19, 2020|Science News
Caen was pitching and I was crouched behind the dish, catching.
Mario Cuomo, Always Moving Us Toward the Light|Mike Barnicle|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Combine the beans and onion sauce in a 9x9-inch casserole dish and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
Make Carla Hall’s Crispy Shallot Green Bean Casserole|Carla Hall|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
DISH is the first and only provider to offer the Netflix app.
Four TV Shows We Can’t Wait to Return In 2015|DISH|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
DISH delivers a one-of-a-kind entertainment experience to every room of your home, wirelessly.
Four TV Shows We Can’t Wait to Return In 2015|DISH|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Add to that the DISH Anywhere app, and you have instant access to the program guide and the ability to record shows on the go.
Four TV Shows We Can’t Wait to Return In 2015|DISH|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A dish of toads of the largest and most repulsive variety used to be offered one by one to the big man's relatives and guests.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
This gift of rice was especially pleasing to the traveller, as no dish is held in higher honour in Korea.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike
"Perry Thomas guessed he was an embezzler," said Tim, putting the last dish in the cupboard and sitting down to his pipe.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
When our nosegay is ready, we lay the cone with the flowers very carefully in a dish of water.
The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1|Various
Your electro-plated butter-dish, or whatever it's going to be, will be simply flung back at you.
First Plays|A. A. Milne

British Dictionary definitions for petri dish

Petri dish

/ (ˈpɛtrɪ) /

noun

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

Word Origin for Petri dish

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

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Medical definitions for petri dish

petri dish

[ pē′trē ]

A shallow circular dish with a loose-fitting cover, used to culture bacteria or other microorganisms.

Scientific definitions for petri dish

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).