All 14 Uses
specimen
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The Swiss Family Robinson
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- 'Be good enough, my philosophical young friend, to fetch a few specimens of these oysters in time for our next meal,' said I. 'We must all exert ourselves, Ernest, for the common good, and pray never let me hear you object to wetting your feet.†
Chpt 1specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- I, too, know the agouti by descriptions and pictures, and there is little doubt that this is a specimen.†
Chpt 1 *specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- The species, I think, is indicated by the white belly and dull red colour of the wing coverts which I observed in these specimens, and I believe them to be bustards, especially as I noticed in the largest the fine moustache-like feathers over the beak, peculiar to the Great Bustard.†
Chpt 3specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- They were discovered in New Holland, by the great Captain Cook, and I congratulate you on being the first to obtain a specimen in New Switzerland!'†
Chpt 4specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- I felt sure the bird was the ruffed grouse, and a very fine specimen.†
Chpt 7
- It was a huge specimen, fully eight feet long, and being now quite helpless, we left it sprawling, and went to inspect Jack's mammoth skeleton, which, of course, proved to be neither more nor less than that of the whale.†
Chpt 11
- It was a vast specimen, upwards of thirty feet in length.†
Chpt 11
- 'Anyhow, I will break off a piece for a specimen.†
Chpt 12
- I do wish you would be content with the menagerie you have already collected, instead of bringing in a specimen of every beast you come across.†
Chpt 13
- Among the specimens he brought I recognized the caper plant and, with still greater pleasure, a shrub which was, I felt sure, the tea-plant of China—it bore very pretty white flowers and the leaves resembled myrtle.†
Chpt 15specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- 'Ladies and gentlemen, these are two very handsome young specimens of the famous African bull-frog,' said Jack, pretending to be offended at the mingled disgust and amusement occasioned by their appearance; 'they are but half-grown, and I hoped to maintain them in seclusion, until they reached full size, when I would have introduced them with proper eclat.†
Chpt 15
- It was impossible to see these lovely seafarers without wishing to obtain specimens; and the canoe accordingly gave chase, presently securing half a dozen, which were handed to us in the yacht to be carefully preserved for the museum, and the place was ever after called Nautilus Creek.†
Chpt 16
- 'While we were helping Jack along, and passing a place where the boar had been grubbing, I noticed some such curious knotty roots or tubercles, that I brought away specimens.†
Chpt 16
- 'I wish now that I had brought home a specimen; but, at the time, I was so much amused by watching the grotesque antics of the birds, that I did not think of obtaining one.†
Chpt 17specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
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)