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Definitions for Specimen
[1] a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, plant, mineral, part, etc.
[2] (in medicine, microbiology, etc.) a sample of a substance or material for examination or study: a urine specimen; a tissue specimen.
[3] a particular or peculiar kind of person.
[4] an individual, object, or part regarded as typical of the group or class to which it belongs (as modifier ) a specimen signature ; a specimen page
[5] med a sample of tissue, blood, urine, etc, taken for diagnostic examination or evaluation
[6] the whole or a part of an organism, plant, rock, etc, collected and preserved as an example of its class, species, etc
[7] informal , often derogatory a person
Words related to Specimen
exhibit, copy, variety, case, sort, embodiment, pattern, individual, illustration, instance, part, exemplar, representative, representation, model, type, species, unit, proof, sampling
Words nearby Specimen
specific volume, specifically, specification, specificity, specify, specimen, specimen plant, speciosity, specious, specious present, speck
Origin of Specimen
1600–10; < Latin: mark, example, indication, sign, equivalent to speci-, stem of specere to look, regard + -men noun suffix denoting result or means
Word origin for Specimen
C17: from Latin: mark, evidence, proof, from specere to look at
Synonyms for Specimen
copy, exhibit, variety, case, embodiment, exemplar, exemplification, illustration, individual, instance, model, part, pattern, proof, representation, representative, sampling, sort, species, type, unit, case history, cross section