Noun
petri (plural petris)
(informal, microbiology) Ellipsis of petri dish.
Synonyms: Petri dish, petri dish
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Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo." "And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand," said Jace. Cassandra Clare
Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism. Robert D. Kaplan
That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous. Jodi Picoult
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism. Benazir Bhutto
It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism. Max Lucado
I may be the only person in the world who has my own embryonic cells growing in a petri dish. Peter Nygard