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a sample regarded as typical of its class; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes- The museum holds over a million insect specimens.
specimens = examples regarded as typical of its class
- they collected a tissue specimen for analysis
- Her mouth partly open, she turned slowly through the pages, nodding at particular specimens.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- If he had been whole, he would have been a fine specimen of a man.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Whoever killed Leonardo wanted one thing—the antimatter specimen.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- This specimen was bred in the zoo.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- About the hall were the mounted heads of many animals — lions, tigers, elephants, moose, bears; larger or more perfect specimens Rainsford had never seen.Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game
- Tate gave her a microscope and installed worktables, shelves, and closets for her specimens.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- ...and I wondered if they were all like the specimen I had seen the first day I started to school.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- "Come in," she said, and led him into the small living room chockfull with her specimens.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- He made kitchen cabinets of heart pine, hung a new front door, a new screen on the porch, and made shelves for her specimens from floor to ceiling.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- For each specimen—hundreds, maybe thousands of them—it was the same.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- He had no interest in learning the shells or feathers himself and questioned her when she scribbled notes in her journal or collected specimens.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- Now at last Kya could label all her precious specimens.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- And even though she couldn't write, Kya had found a way to label her specimens.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- You'd gone to the considerable expense to procure a specimen,J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
- This request, too, the lawyers refused, much to the regret of Milton Greeman, curator of Wistar's renowned collection of medical specimens.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- But the Psych Warfare boys did get live specimens, so I suppose Operation Royalty was a success.Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
- And I'm not a particularly handsome specimen!Eugene Ionesco -- Rhinoceros
- I became increasingly aware that the man was staring at me, not impolitely, but as though he were studying an unknown specimen.Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved
specimens = samples representative of their class
specimen = example
specimen = sample
specimen = an example regarded as typical for its kind of animal
specimens = samples representative of their class
specimens = samples representative of their class
specimen = sample or example
specimens = samples representative of their class
specimens = samples representative of their class
specimen = an sample regarded as typical of its class
specimens = samples representative of their class
specimens = samples representative of their class
specimens = samples representative of their class
specimen = an sample regarded as typical of its class
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