Pyrex

[pahy-reks]

Trademark.

a brand name for any of a class of heat- and chemical-resistant glassware products of varying composition used for cooking.

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Contemporary Examples of pyrex

Season the venison with salt and pepper and put it into a nonreactive bowl such as a Pyrex dish.
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Daniel Boulud
November 17, 2010
To cleanse our palettes, we sniffed chopped watermelon, cucumber and canned corn held in Pyrex containers throughout the lab.
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Bill Mahan
July 11, 2010
Break out the Pyrex—the casserole, America's classic hard-times dish, is hot again.
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December 8, 2008

Historical Examples of pyrex

Over the whole pour some melted butter, cover the casserole, (or pyrex plate) and put it in the oven with a low fire.
The Italian Cook Book
Maria Gentile
It has been found that it imparts a violet red tint to the pyrex tubing after the latter has been used for a few combustions.
Synthesis of 2-methyl-4-selenoquinazolone, 2-phenylbenzoselenazole, and its derivatives
Y-Gwan Chen
Butter a square Pyrex pan and put in the graham-cracker dust to make,a crust.
The Complete Book of Cheese
Robert Carlton Brown

British Dictionary definitions for pyrex

Pyrex

noun

trademark

any of a variety of borosilicate glasses that have low coefficients of expansion, making them suitable for heat-resistant glassware used in cookery and chemical apparatus
(as modifier)a Pyrex dish

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Word Origin and History for pyrex

Pyrex

1915, proprietary name (Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.Y.), arbitrary coinage, in which eager etymologists see implications of Greek pyr "fire" and perhaps Latin rex "king;" but the prosaic inventors say it was based on pie (n.1), because pie dishes were among the first products made from it. The -r- is purely euphonious.