C1nounsciencenature
US/ˈspes.ə.mən/
UK/ˈspes.ə.mɪn/
one example or a small amount of something, taken to be studied or tested
In context
The museum keeps over a million insect specimens in its collection.
The lab needs a blood specimen before it can confirm the result.
Researchers collected soil specimens from forty sites along the Mekong.
Words that go with specimen
verb + noun
- collect specimensStudents collected specimens of leaves from the school garden.
noun + noun
- blood specimenNurses label each blood specimen with the patient's name.
- museum specimenDNA from old museum specimens helps scientists study extinct species.
adjective + noun
- rare specimenThe garden has a rare specimen of a Vietnamese orchid.
- fine specimenThat oak is a fine specimen, more than three hundred years old.
noun + preposition
- specimen ofThe fisherman caught a perfect specimen of the rare giant catfish.