petri
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petri (plural petris)
- (informal, microbiology) Ellipsis of petri dish.
- Synonyms: Petri dish, petri dish
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Borrowed from Latin petreus, from petra (“stone, rock”).
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petri (feminine pètria, masculine plural petris, feminine plural pètries)
- (relational) stone; stony
- meteorits petris ― stony meteorites
- (figurative) stolid, steadfast
- una constitució pètria ― a rock solid constitution
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- “petri” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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