test tube

English

Alternative forms

• test-tube

Noun

Wikipedia test tube (plural test tubes)

1. (chemistry) a glass tube, rounded at one end and open at the other; used for small-scale laboratory tests

Translations

glass tube

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試管 (cmn), 试管 (cmn) (shìguǎn)

• Czech: zkumavka (cs) f
• Danish: reagensglas (da) n
• Dutch: reageerbuis (nl) f
• Finnish: koeputki (fi)
• French: tube à essai (fr), éprouvette (fr) f
• German: Reagenzglas (de) n
• Greek: δοκιμαστικός σωλήνας (el) (dokimastikós solínas)
• Hebrew: מבחנה (he) (mavhena) f

• Hungarian: kémcső (hu)
• Italian: provetta (it) f
• Japanese: 試験管 (ja) (しけんかん, shikenkan)
• Malay: tabung uji (ms)
• Polish: próbówka (pl) f
• Romanian: eprubetă (ro) f
• Russian: пробирка (ru) (probírka) f
• Spanish: tubo de ensayo (es) m
• Turkish: deney tüpü (tr)

Adjective

test tube (not comparable)

1. produced in a test tube
2. conceived or developed in vitro by artificial insemination

Derived terms

• test tube baby