Definitions for test-tube

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Spelling: [test-toob, -tyoob]
IPA: /ˈtɛstˌtub, -ˌtyub/

Test-Tube is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in test-tube (-beestttu).

Definitions for test-tube

noun

  1. a hollow cylinder of thin glass with one end closed, used in chemical and biological experimentation and analysis.

adjective

  1. produced in or as if in a test tube; synthetic or experimental.

Origin of test-tube

First recorded in 1885-90

Examples for test-tube

I top the test-tube with another tube, the width of the neck of a claret bottle.

But it will be the test-tube and not the cogwheel that will make the money.

Pour off the water, add more water, and place in a test-tube.

It is a mega-leap from the agar and test-tube finding to real patients and their delicate lungs.

With a dropper he sucked up a bit of the liquid from the test-tube.

If instead of a test-tube a bottle had been taken, the result would have been the same.

From early dawn to midnight I bent over the test-tube and the furnace.

Scientists hope the five-ounce patty, made from 100 percent test-tube meat, heralds the future of food production.

The test-tube with the white of egg showed me a similar exodus.

Place a few drops in a test-tube, and heat cautiously over a spirit-lamp, and when it boils remove, and inhale by the nose.

Word Value for test-tube
Scrable

4

Words with friends

4

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