petri dish

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   a shallow dish used to culture bacteria

   Broaderdish

Questions about petri dish

What does petri dish mean?

petri dish means "a shallow dish used to culture bacteria".

Is petri dish a common word?

petri dish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.