All 6 Uses

specimen
in
The Reptile Room
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Is there someone who will come and take care of the children while you are out collecting specimens?†
p. 13.9 *

specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
Somebody has to make sure all the snake traps are working, so I don't hurt any of our specimens.†
p. 14.8
When I was getting my herpetology degree, my roommate was so envious of a new toad I had discovered that he stole and ate my only specimen.†
p. 61.2

specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
Tomorrow morning, I'm going to tell him that he needs to stay here and look after my specimens instead.†
p. 63.3

specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
At the sight of the Reptile Room, which Uncle Monty had filled so carefully with his specimens and in which he was now a sort of specimen himself, the weight of the Baudelaires' despair was too much for them and they quietly began to cry.†
p. 84.4
At the sight of the Reptile Room, which Uncle Monty had filled so carefully with his specimens and in which he was now a sort of specimen himself, the weight of the Baudelaires' despair was too much for them and they quietly began to cry.†
p. 84.4

specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class

Definitions:

(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)