specimen
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The wing patterns, front and back, are centered on individual sheets, themselves screen printed to create standardized forms for specimen information and further ornamented with spatter-printed reliefs of butterflies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
At first glance, the specimen looked typical for its age.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
The new specimen predates them by 20 million years, placing M. cousteaui near the base of the chelicerate lineage.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
"And our specimen is also a juvenile or 'baby', so it's perfect for our dinosaur species name to honor Dooly."
From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026
Normally, the type specimen of a species is the first set of bones found, but since no first set of Homo sapiens bones exists, there was a vacancy, which Cope desired to fill.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Common Senses: Spec, Spect, Spic ("Look")
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