- a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, plant, mineral, part, etc.
- (in medicine, microbiology, etc.) a sample of a substance or material for examination or study: a urine specimen; a tissue specimen.
- a particular or peculiar kind of person.
- an individual, object, or part regarded as typical of the group or class to which it belongs
- (as modifier)
- a sample of tissue, blood, urine, etc, taken for diagnostic examination or evaluation
- the whole or a part of an organism, plant, rock, etc, collected and preserved as an example of its class, species, etc
- a person
