test tube

English

Alternative forms

test-tube

Noun

two test tubes

test tube (plural test tubes)

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

Translations

glass tube

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: tub d'assaig m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 試管 (zh), 试管 (zh) (shìguǎn)
Czech: zkumavka (cs) f
Danish: reagensglas (da) n
Dutch: reageerbuis (nl) f
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: koeputki (fi)
French: tube à essai (fr), éprouvette (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Reagenzglas (de) n
Greek: δοκιμαστικός σωλήνας (el) (dokimastikós solínas)
Hebrew: מבחנה‎ (he) f (mavhena)
Hungarian: kémcső (hu)
Icelandic: tilraunaglas n
Italian: provetta (it) f
Japanese: 試験管 (しけんかん, shikenkan)

Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Malay: tabung uji
Maori: ipuipu
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: prøverør n, reagensglass n, reagensrør n
Polish: próbówka (pl) f, probówka (pl) f
Portuguese: proveta (pt) f
Romanian: eprubetă (ro) f
Russian: проби́рка (ru) f (probírka)
Spanish: tubo de ensayo m
Swedish: provrör (sv) n
Tagalog: subukang tubo
Thai: หลอดทดลอง (lɔ̀ɔt-tót-lɔɔng)
Tibetan: ཚོད་ལྟ་ཤེལ་སྟོང (tshod lta shel stong)
Turkish: deney tüpü
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Adjective

test tube (not comparable)

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

Derived terms

test tube baby

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