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Pyrex definition

☆ Py·rex (pī′reks′)

a heat-resistant borosilicate glassware used for cooking, lab work, etc.

Etymology: arbitrary coinage < pie + -r- + -ex (with implication of Gr pyr, fire + L rex, king), arbitrary suffix of manufactured products

noun

such glassware

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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