specimens

Imagining novels as biological specimens creates a crazed and mythic zoology of hybrids, beasts, mutants, and aberrations.

Objects more massive than a certain amount are more spherical than not, while punier specimens are lumpy and irregular.

Not least, the earliest specimens should be small, with bigger galaxies coming along later.

But it did give researchers plenty of human specimens to study as they looked for a “cure” for mental illness.

Its rise coincided with European exploration, which drove a curiosity to see specimens from new parts of the world.

Specimens were easily collected in a mist net placed across the opening.

In such conditions many kinds which do not flourish very freely in the open garden, grow into handsome specimens.

Of course, most specimens are probably taken up in the summer when the handsome foliage attracts the eye.

It had been a pleasure to choose the various tasteful specimens of the upholsterer's art.

He uses the red pipe-stone and other materials in the production of his pipes, which are ingenious specimens of sculpture.