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- Three years ago, her brother had walked Katherine down this corridor, introducing her to the SMSC by proudly showing off some of the building's more unusual items—the Mars meteorite ALH-84001, the handwritten pictographic diary of Sitting Bull, a collection of wax-sealed Ball jars containing original specimens collected by Charles Darwin.†
Chpt 11-12specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- Director Inoue Sato was a fearsome specimen—a bristly tempest of a woman who stood a mere four feet ten inches.†
Chpt 17-18 *specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- He removed the gold ring from Peter's hand, placed it in a clear specimen bag, and gave it to Sato.†
Chpt 25-26
- She produced the specimen bag and handed it to Langdon.†
Chpt 29-30
- Katherine's pudgy little assistant began rattling on about the specimens in this room.†
Chpt 33-34specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- The massive room looked as if a mad scientist had taken over a Walmart and packed every aisle and shelf with specimen jars of all shapes and sizes.†
Chpt 37-38specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- Everywhere he looked there were specimen jars of dead life-forms—salamanders, jellyfish, rats, bugs, birds, and other things he could not begin to identify.†
Chpt 37-38
- As if this collection were not unsettling enough on its own, the hazy red safelights that protected these photosensitive specimens from long-term light exposure gave the visitor the feeling he was standing inside a giant aquarium, where lifeless creatures were somehow congregating to watch from the shadows.†
Chpt 37-38specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- Our longest specimen.†
Chpt 37-38specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- Wet Pod has a new specimen.†
Chpt 37-38
- A cherubic entomologist with a specimen box?†
Chpt 45-46
- Every pod was equipped with a specimen bay—a giant movable wall that could be retracted for transporting oversize specimens in and out of the pods.†
Chpt 47-48
- Every pod was equipped with a specimen bay—a giant movable wall that could be retracted for transporting oversize specimens in and out of the pods.†
Chpt 47-48specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- He'd just received a call from an officer inside saying that the keypad to Pod 5 had been sabotaged, and that a security light indicated that Pod 5's specimen bay door was now open.†
Chpt 53-54specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- As he arrived at the specimen bay, sure enough he found the door open a couple of feet.†
Chpt 53-54
- With the help of aggressive cycles of steroids intermixed with black-market growth hormones and endless hours of weight lifting, Andros transformed himself into something he had never imagined he could be—a perfect male specimen.†
Chpt 57-58
- Months had passed, and although his body had healed, Andros was no longer the cocky specimen he had been in Greece.†
Chpt 77-78
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)