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Petri dish
Pe·tri dish [ ptree dìsh ] (plural Pe·tri dish·es)


noun 
Definition:
 
dish for growing cultures: a shallow flat-bottomed dish with a loose cover, used especially to grow bacterial cultures in the laboratory
[After Julius Petri (1852-1892), German bacteriologist]
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