Words Like SPECIMEN

We have put together a list of words that are similar to SPECIMEN.

5 Alternative Words Similar to specimen

1 Example Noun      Synonym Words Like Example
2 Illustration Noun      Synonym Words Like Illustration
3 Instance Noun      Synonym Words Like Instance
4 Representative Noun      Synonym Words Like Representative
5 Sample Noun      Synonym Words Like Sample

1 examples of specimen

1 a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of a person's blood; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art

10 definitions of specimen

1 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.
2 a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
3 an example regarded as typical of its class
4 An individual, item, or part representative of a class, genus, or whole. See Synonyms at example.
5 A sample, as of tissue, blood, or urine, used for analysis and diagnosis.
6 Informal An individual; a person: a disagreeable specimen.
7 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.
8 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.
9 A typical individual; one serving as a specially striking or exaggerated example of the kind indicated.
10 An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
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