specimen
Example Sentences
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All collected specimens were engorged, showing they had fed enough to significantly increase their size.
From Science Daily
They analyzed lithium isotopes in Ediacara fossils collected from Newfoundland and northwest Canada, studying specimens preserved in both sandy and muddy sediments.
From Science Daily
With the whole family looking at him, he suddenly felt like a lab specimen.
From Literature
To explore how these massive animals moved, Megan Jones and her colleagues examined the hindlimbs of 94 modern specimens and 40 fossil specimens representing 63 species of kangaroos and wallabies.
From Science Daily
Gen. Ambrose Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac, “but if the couchant lion postpones his spring too long, people will begin wondering whether he is not a stuffed specimen after all.”
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