Meaning & use
Petri dish
A shallow, transparent, lidded dish used in laboratories to culture cells, bacteria, or other microorganisms.
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The technician placed a bacterial sample in a Petri dish to observe its growth.
Students in the biology lab grew mold colonies in labeled Petri dishes.
A note on using this word
Often misspelled 'petry dish'; it is named after German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri and capitalized as a proper adjective.
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