stereomicroscope
noun
ste·reo·mi·cro·scope
ˌster-ē-ō-ˈmī-krə-ˌskōp 
ˌstir-
: a microscope having a set of optics for each eye to make an object appear in three dimensions
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To learn of the new locations for the bugs, the entomologist who wrote the study, the late Raul Nascimento Ferreira, looked for bugs in museum collections and his personal collection and used a wild M5 stereomicroscope to identify the species, according to the study.
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Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
Live third-stage larval form of O. robertsi (80 mm long, 1 mm diameter) under stereomicroscope (original magnification ×10).
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2023
Spring Branch Academic Institute - The biology/science classroom will add two digital stereomicroscopes and an advanced compound microscope to its lab.
—Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2019
To learn more about how female and males evolved, Gavin Svenson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and colleagues measured the body sizes of over a hundred orchid mantises with a stereomicroscope in the lab.
—National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2016
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Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
Live third-stage larval form of O. robertsi (80 mm long, 1 mm diameter) under stereomicroscope (original magnification ×10).
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2023
Spring Branch Academic Institute - The biology/science classroom will add two digital stereomicroscopes and an advanced compound microscope to its lab.
—Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2019
To learn more about how female and males evolved, Gavin Svenson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and colleagues measured the body sizes of over a hundred orchid mantises with a stereomicroscope in the lab.
—National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2016
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stereomicroscope
noun
ste·reo·mi·cro·scope
ˌster-ē-ō-ˈmī-krə-ˌskōp
: a microscope having a set of optics for each eye to make an object appear in three dimensions
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