0 a heavy stick made of clay, stone, or metal with a thick, rounded end, used for crushing substances in a mortar (= a small strong bowl) by hitting or rubbing them -- 杵；碾槌
Things seems to be natural extensions of her hands - spoon, warming pot, ladle, pitchers with handles, cup, glass, and pestle.
Pooled samples of ten ants from the campground site were ground in a small amount of liquid nitrogen with disposable plastic pestles.
It is an important economic species and a favourite wood for fuel, charcoal production and making pestles.
The gut of each insect was removed before individual insects were ground with a pestle within an 1.5 ml microcentrifuge tube.
The content of the tubes was homogenized using a sterile plastic pestle.
The cells were lysed using a glass homogenizer with nylon pestle.
Tubes were immersed in liquid nitrogen and the contents were crushed with a pestle.
Finally, dying or freshly dead individuals from the infected cultures were homogenized with a plastic pestle in vials containing 1.5 ml of medium to produce the spore suspensions.
