0 a cooking utensil with a wide, flat blade that is not sharp, used especially for lifting food out of pans --
1 a kitchen utensil with a wide, flat blade, used esp. for lifting and spreading foods --
He utilizes the spatula to fulfill the anchovies' hunger.
Tenango is noted for the making of wooden utensils such as spoons and spatulas.
For example, it has recently come to light that the type of spatula used to take the smear is critical, and in many instances it is not used correctly.
Only a wooden spatula is needed.
Samples are collected using a brushlike device, rather than a spatula.
Give and take with the spatula.
Samples were collected with a sterile spatula on the surface of the frozen soils after removal of the snow cover.
The bacteriological laboratory provided special test-kits (small tubes with in vitro culture and spatula) to physicians across the region.
