- plural of specimen.
specimens
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The Hunterian said excavators in the 19th century occasionally swapped over remains from different coffins, with better preserved specimens placed in the most intact or ornate sarcophagi.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
By comparing specimens preserved over many years, researchers were able to answer a fundamental question that would have been difficult to investigate through fieldwork alone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
After some plants evolved leaves, they began shading out shorter specimens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Bloomer contacted biologists and museum curators across the country, asking them to examine their collections for unusually large specimens.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
They’d been placed in formaldehyde because Zanmi Lasante didn’t have the equipment to preserve the specimens in frozen sections.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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