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    This specimen was bred in the zoo.  (source)
    specimen = an example regarded as typical for its kind of animal
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    For each specimen—hundreds, maybe thousands of them—it was the same.  (source)
    specimen = an sample regarded as typical of its class
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    If he had been whole, he would have been a fine specimen of a man.  (source)
    specimen = example
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    Whoever killed Leonardo wanted one thing--the antimatter specimen.  (source)
    specimen = sample
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    About the hall were the mounted heads of many animals — lions, tigers, elephants, moose, bears; larger or more perfect specimens Rainsford had never seen.  (source)
    specimens = samples representative of their class
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    Finally he dangled the item between his thumb and index finger, holding it away from his body, specimenlike—it's a dead jellyfish that has the reflex power to deliver one last spasmic sting.†  (source)
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    You'd gone to the considerable expense to procure a specimen,  (source)
    specimen = an sample regarded as typical of its class
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    "Those are excellent specimens," said the Count as he took his seat.†  (source)
    specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
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    "Not the greatest specimen," Mack says, "but I got her cheap from this bankrupt circus out west.†  (source)
    specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
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    We ate the specimens he had collected, before they were treated with arsenic and stuffed, of course.†  (source)
    specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
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    It carries the logo of FedEx, but this craft is a sorry specimen.†  (source)
    specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
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    Coelacanth Prehistoric deep-sea fish, long supposed extinct until specimens found in mid-twentieth.†  (source)
    specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
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    It's a biological specimen, a partial fragment of an animal collected from Central America.†  (source)
    specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
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