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Object serving as an example of its class
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specimen
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Specimen may refer to: Sample (material) , a limited quantity of something which is intended to be similar to and represent a larger amount of that thing(s).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An individual instance that represents a class; an example. 2 A sample, especially one used for diagnostic analysis. 3 (context humorous often preceded with “fine” English) An eligible man.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an example regarded as typical of its class a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes; "they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE antral ▪ Another of the antral biopsy specimens was Gram stained and cultured. ▪ H pylori infection was proved by positive cultures or histological identification, or both in antral specimens from 113 patients. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "pattern, model," from Latin specimen "indication, mark, example, sign, evidence; that by which a thing is known, means of knowing," from specere "to look at" (see scope (n.1)). Meaning "single thing regarded as typical of its kind" first recorded ...
Usage examples of specimen.
The alligator specimen and all the tissue and blood samples were gone?
However, Professor Schleiermacher was a specimen of that noble type of scientific men to whom gold was merely the rare metal Au, and diamonds merely the element C in the scarcest of its manifold allotropic embodiments.
Typically, specimens such as envelopes suspected of anthrax contamination are taken to a biohazard lab, where they are opened under a special hood that sucks air away from the technicians and through powerful filters to keep spores from becoming airborne.
I also found one specimen of Asplenium alternifolium, which, however, is abundant on the other side the valley, on the walls that flank the path between Primadengo and Calpiognia, and elsewhere.
As specimens of the large number of treatises which have been published asserting the destruction of the whole creation in the Day of Judgment, the following may be consulted.
This puzzling question will perhaps be answered as new dinosaur specimens are found, and other archosaur and non-archosaur groups become better understood.
The best of it may be quoted here, together with a specimen of the Basilisco burlesque.
As he watched, two bedraggled specimens of local manhood staggered across the grey floor from the left doorway.
Indeed two men left the wall to melt into a pile from which two bedraggled specimens crawled toward the pink.
From a stainless-steel cabinet in the corner he brought over two sealed specimen jars containing a mass of mangled human offal half immersed in a bloodied liquid.
The birds of paradise fled at our approach, and truly I despaired of getting near one when Conseil, who was walking in front, suddenly bent down, uttered a triumphal cry, and came back to me bringing a magnificent specimen.
Found in the Nevada mountains, the bristlecone pine is a stunted specimen looking more like a piece of standing driftwood than a living organism, but it can live five thousand years!
The eunuch was Yusif, the same pathetic specimen he had browbeaten on his last visit.
The hortator was an even grimmer specimen, a big Greek with a twisting white scar on his jaw.
Jermyn House on the afternoon of August 3, 1913, being conveyed immediately to the large chamber which housed the collection of African specimens as arranged by Sir Robert and Arthur.