Both Uses of
laboratory
in
The Hunger Games
- Like the jabberjays, these killer wasps were spawned in a lab and strategically placed, like land mines, around the districts during the war.†
p. 185.7lab = a workplace where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals (also used figuratively) OR (as an adjective) related to such a place
- This is no herbal concoction that my mother grinds up out of woodland plants, it's high-tech medicine brewed up in the Capitol's labs.†
p. 188.6 *labs = workplaces where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals
Definitions:
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(1)
(laboratory) a workplace where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals
or (as an adjective): related to such a place -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, lab can be used as an abbreviated way of saying Labrador retriever. It is also a rare last name and may indicate someone's initials.