Specimen

What do we mean by specimen?

An individual, item, or part representative of a class or whole. synonym: example. noun

An organism, part of an organism, or fossil that has been collected and usually preserved, especially for display or scientific research. noun

A sample, as of tissue, blood, or urine, used for analysis and diagnosis. noun

An individual; a person. noun

A part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number: something that represents or illustrates all of its kind; an illustrative example: as, a collection of geological specimens; a wild specimen of the human or of the feline race; a specimen page of a book (a page shown as a specimen of what the whole is or is to be); a specimen copy of a medal. noun

In zoology and botany, an individual animal or plant, or some part of one, prepared and preserved for scientific examination; an example of a species or other group; a preparation: as, a specimen of natural history; a specimen of the dog or the rose. Abbreviated sp. and spec. noun

A typical individual; one serving as a specially striking or exaggerated example of the kind indicated. noun

Synonyms Specimen, Sample. A specimen is a part of a larger whole employed to exhibit the nature or kind of that of which it forms a part, without reference to the relative quality of individual portions; thus, a cabinet of mineralogical specimens exhibits the nature of the rocks from which they are broken. A sample is a part taken out of a quantity, and implies that the quality of the whole is to be judged by it, and not rarely that it is to be used as a standard for testing the goodness, genuineness, or purity of the whole, and the like. In many cases, however, the words are used indifferently. Sample is more often used in trade: as, a sample of cotton or coffee. noun

A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample. noun

An individual instance that represents a class; an example. noun

A sample, especially one used for diagnostic analysis. noun

An eligible man. noun

A bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes noun

An example regarded as typical of its class noun

An individual instance that represents a class; an example.

A sample, especially one used for diagnostic analysis.

(often preceded with “fine”) An eligible man.

Words that are spelled similarly to specimen:
specimen, species, specie, specimens, spearmen, spacemen.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word specimen:
archaeopteryx, holotype, herbarium, epithet, vertebrae, skeleton, collected, skull, specimens, fragmentary, fossil, deposited, kew, taxon, botanic, weigh, dinosaur, synonym, preserved, cervical, amber, weighed, jaw, snout, articulated, fossils, juvenile, cretaceous, botanist, partial, genus, feathers, locality, nursery, bones, dorsal, tooth, description, teeth, incomplete, quarry, examined, subspecies, shark, botanical, housed, measured, species, tail, recovered, compression, collector, formation, extinct, bone, length, electron, discovered, measuring, apollo, museum, caught, estimated, specific, adult, sample, planted, tissue, belong, grown, described, found, bird, collection, gardens, trees, complete, hybrid, samples, belonging, tall, depth, type, natural, tree, diameter, neck, derived, identified, preparation, missing, animal, male, distinct, latin, dating, rocks.

Words that rhyme with specimen:
jessamine, blue jessamine, day jessamine, night jessamine, jessamyn, cape jessamine.

Adjectives that are often used to describe specimen:
single, fine, same, good, perfect, fair, only, beautiful, largest, second, typical, best, complete, splendid, fresh, surgical, magnificent, excellent, rare, curious, finest, interesting, original, hour, entire, male, remarkable, resected, noble, unique, favourable, earliest, female, larger, cylindrical, admirable, average, type, standard, gross, smaller, notched, characteristic, thin, handsome, oldest, live, biological, polished, dried, adequate, smallest, concrete, immature, solitary, pure, superb, thick, operative, genuine, exquisite, mature, finer, dry, compact, favorable, stained, representative, voided, test, wonderful, striking, imperfect.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective specimen:
records, courtesy, containers, trees, interactions, plants, distance, forms, preparation, method, collection, interaction, radiograph, tubes, plates, entries, surface, tests, data, interface, bottles, sets, film, holder, technique, variability, labels, lenses, books, number, ballots, book, jars, adequacy, answers, numbers, material, scale, test, variation, sheets, shape, page, verse, collections, copy, grids, size, variations, results, samples, quality, failure, supports, cell, ends, removal, testing, spacing, blanks, shows, photographs, preservation, shrubs, glass, bars, notes, geometry, buildings, blocks, shapes, outlines, record, tree, bricks, sheet, reports, counts, volume, lens, reviews, shrub, apparatus, coins, container, descriptions, cards, assembly, scatter, procedure, techniques, screens.

Words that sound like specimen:
specimen, specimens, spaceman, spacemen, space man, spellman, spelman, spearman, sussman, spillman, spearmen, susman, spilman, sesame, spokesman, speelman, spackman, speakman, spielman, spumone, posseman, sassman, zusammen, cinnamon, cinamon, spokesmen, specifying, spinnen, springen, spasm, summon, solomon, cessation, spasms, semon, saman, jessamine, spiciness, stamin, special one, yasemin, sparkman, selman, spenserian, summen, jessamyn, sportman, spiegelman, sellman, sessoms, sesam, seussian, spokeswoman, opsonin, cyanin, spezia, springman, type specimen, sesma, sponsion, sesames, spencerian, seston.