 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
specimen
noun
1: an example regarded as typical of its class
2: a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for
diagnostic purposes; "they collected a urine specimen for
urinalysis"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Specimen \Spec"i*men\, noun [L., fr. specere to look, to behold.
See {Spy}.]
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; as, a specimen
of a man's handwriting; a specimen of a person's blood; a
specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
Syn: Sample; model; pattern.
Usage: {Specimen}, {Sample}. A specimen is a representative
of the class of things to which it belongs; as, a
specimen of photography. A sample is a part of the
thing itself, designed to show the quality of the
whole; as, a sample of sugar or of broadcloth. A
cabinet of minerals consists of specimens; if a part
be broken off from any one of these, it is a sample of
the mineral to which it belongs. ''Several persons
have exhibited specimens of this art before multitudes
of beholders.'' --Addison. ''I design this but for a
sample of what I hope more fully to discuss.''
--Woodward.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "specimen":
case, case history, case in point, cross section, embodiment,
example, exemplar, exponent, illustration, instance, little bite,
little smack, model, pattern, piece, representation,
representative, sample, sampling, sort, species, swatch, taste,
taster, type, typification, variety
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