What is "specimens"

Usage examples of "specimens".

After an interval of three or four days the contrast in appearance between the cauterised and control specimens was wonderfully great.

When the caustic was applied to the three cauterised specimens, it was held quite motionless during 5 seconds, and the result was that the black marks were extremely minute.

Not a whole lot of space remained to fit additional specimens in, Dan noted.

Yet the specimens looked fresh and green enough to have just come down from daylight.

Sam was being swung away in his terrible sleep to hang with the other specimens against the curving bulkhead of the alien ship.

And the time for the departure of the collector of specimens was near.

If you will look carefully at any class of students in one of our colleges, you will have no difficulty in selecting specimens of two different aspects of youthful manhood.

That the reader may have a clear idea of the kind of movement excited by the bits of attached card, we append here accurate sketches of three germinating beans thus treated, and selected out of several specimens to show the gradations in the degrees of curvature.

The control specimens exhibited no such irregular growth, and the two sets presented a striking contrast.

Of 10 control specimens tried in the same jars at the same time, not one was in the least curved.

Uncauterised specimens similarly placed became much bent downwards through geotropism in the course of 5 or 6 hours.

Of 14 control specimens observed at the same time, all excepting one had closely approached the sieve.

If we add up these numbers, we find that 78 out of 96 of the control specimens curved themselves towards the bottom of the sieve.

Of 24 control specimens, 23 were bent to the sieve, and on a second occasion 15 out of 16 were similarly curved in a greater or less degree.

But these cotyledons, after being extended horizontally, bowed themselves upwards as effectually as the unmutilated specimens in the same pots, showing that sensitiveness to gravitation is not confined to their tips.