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The room is strewn with glittering retorts, cylinders, phials.—Meredi Ortega, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023 The tubes, flasks, phials, and bottles containing the pigments are stored in floor-to-ceiling glass cabinets.—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Latin phiala, from Greek phialē
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