A shallow container, originally and typically resembling a boat in shape. Chemistry. A small shallow container in which a substance may be placed in…

(a) a box in which scientific specimens collected in the field are temporarily placed; (b) a box for the collection of contributions of money.

a chamber in which microscopic specimens may be kept moist.

a glass flask with an elongated neck bent downwards to reduce the entry of microorganisms from the air. Now rare.

Biology and Medicine. A shallow vessel, typically a Petri dish, containing or used to contain a medium for the culture of microorganisms.

A shallow, circular, flat-bottomed glass or plastic dish with vertical sides and with a cover of the same shape but slightly larger, used in…

(originally) a sterilized glass tube which at one end has a plug of cotton wool, etc., and at the other terminates as a capillary tube whose end…

a shallow glass dish.

Applied to various things shaped like a straw. A plastic phial in which bull semen is stored for artificial insemination.

a place where a supply of human or animal tissue for grafting is stored.