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IPA transcription: [s'pɛsəmən]
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Noun
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an example regarded as typical of its class
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a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
“they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis”
Usage examples
- I hope to find even more primitive specimens than "Liaoceratops"," Peter Makovicky said.
- This allows the fossils to weather out as discrete, often complete museum-grade specimens.
- Richard Owen originally called the specimen on which the genus was based "Dasyurus laniarus".
- In male specimens, the flowers are yellowish and appear in axillary groups.
- He drained the surrounding swamps, created lawns, planted specimen trees, and built the conservatory.
- Four specimens of this European reptile are conserved in museum collections.
- They want to add Frisby to their collection of specimens from other planets.
- For a long period this bird was known only from three nineteenth-century specimens.
- No other specimens have ever been identified as belonging to this family.
- At present, specimens are released into reservoirs rather than the Mekong River itself.