Lab dish inventor
The crossword clue "Lab dish inventor" is answered by PETRI, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PETRI
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PETRI answer page.
Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PETRI
Every other clue in this collection answered by PETRI, most used first.
- ___ dish - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Lab dish - used 27 times, most recently in 2019
- ___ dish (lab container) - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ dish (lab item) - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of dish - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Dish in a lab - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of lab dish - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Lab dish eponym - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Dish name - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Kind of culture dish - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Lab dish name - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Lab's __ dish - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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- Dynamite inventor - NOBEL, used 39 times
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