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IPA transcription: [s'pɛsəmən]

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Noun

  • 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”

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.