Both Uses
specimen
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Edited)
- ...and I wondered if they were all like the specimen I had seen the first day I started to school.
p. 207.8specimen = sample or example
- If he had been whole, he would have been a fine specimen of a man.
p. 219.4 *specimen = example
Definitions:
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(1)
(specimen) an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)