All 5 Uses of
specimen
in
Childhood's End
- The cities that had been good enough for earlier generations had been rebuilt-or deserted and left as museum specimens when they had ceased to serve any useful purpose.†
Chpt 6 *specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- "What would happen," continued Jan thoughtfully, "if someone volunteered to go as a live specimen?†
Chpt 11specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- Presumably it was a pressure-capsule containing some specimen of deep-sea life, still swimming happily around under its normal tons-to-the-square-centimetre conditions.†
Chpt 11
- It would never do to let a valuable specimen be destroyed.†
Chpt 18
- The Overlord psychologist was still studying the last specimen of Homo sapiens.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes