vial

noun/vaɪəl/

Frequency rank: #11,834 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a small container, usually made of glass, used to hold liquid substances.

Illustration for the English word “vial”

Example sentence

The nurse carefully filled the small vial with the patient's blood sample.

Synonyms & related words

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