All 4 Uses of
specimen
in
Dune
- I've a filmbook on a small specimen, only one hundred and ten meters long and twenty-two meters in diameter.†
Book 1
- Worm specimens we've examined lead us to suspect complicated chemical interchanges within them.†
Book 1 *
- We've just weeded out some of their less successful specimens, leaving the strong to grow stronger — just like on Salusa Secundus.†
Book 3
- Sandworms grow to enormous size (specimens longer than 400 meters have been seen in the deep desert) and live to great age unless slain by one of their fellows or drowned in water, which is poisonous to them.†
Book Term
Definition:
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(specimen) an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes