petri dish

Noun

Meaning

a shallow dish used to culture bacteria

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

beaker burette ampoule culture medium cuvette test tube laboratory flask experimental vessel fernbach flask laboratory vessel blood collection tube culture broth flat-bottomed laboratory flask broth culture boiling flask
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Hypernyms

dish

Examples

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

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. Oscar Isaac

Close letter words and terms

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