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dropper

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drop·per /ˈdrɒpə $ ˈdrɑːpər/ noun [countable]  TZa short glass tube with a hollow rubber part at one end, that you use to measure liquid one drop at a time 滴管5 see picture at 见图 laboratory
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dropperFolly was a dropper of things and a leaver around of other things.A bait dropper, as opposed to a swimfeeder, has limitations.The first Montblancs were filled by unscrewing the nib section and filling the barrel with an eye dropper.I found a medicine dropper and used that to feed it the milk they left me.They can easily become workaholics, name droppers, gossips and braggarts.Avoid essential oils sold in bottles with a rubber-tipped dropper.It comes with three prepared slides, three live specimen holders, ant house, water dropper and instructions.
drop·per nounChineseSyllable
a a hollow glass with short tube Corpus


dropper
dropper /ˈdrɒpə $ ˈdrɑːpər/ noun [countable]
a short glass tube with a hollow rubber part at one end, that you use to measure liquid one drop at a time


drop·perBrE /ˈdrɒpə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdrɑːpər/ 🔊 noun
a short glass tube with a hollow rubber end used for measuring medicine or other liquids in drops 滴管