Definitions for specimen

specimen spec·i·men

Spelling: [spes-uh-muh n]
IPA: /ˈspɛs ə mən/

Specimen is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in specimen (ceeimnps).

Definitions for specimen

noun

  1. a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, plant, mineral, part, etc.
  2. (in medicine, microbiology, etc.) a sample of a substance or material for examination or study:
  3. a particular or peculiar kind of person.

Origin of specimen

1600-10; Latin: mark, example, indication, sign, equivalent to speci-, stem of specere to look, regard + -men noun suffix denoting result or means

Examples for specimen

One day during his office hours, a female student asked him if he would agree to have a specimen studied in his laboratory.

But we have here a specimen of the inevitable consequence of sin.

The lab report came back showing the specimen was some kind of rotten meat.

Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry the VIII, is a specimen of speculation, admiration, and everything in between.

He repaid Hopper with a specimen of his tongue, and flung the writ back at him.

Here is a specimen of his graceful blending of irony and humor.

Officials there quickly handed over the specimen to Dutch authorities who have assumed investigative responsibility in this case.

I had no means of preserving a specimen, but I took a drawing of one.

That gave participants an opportunity to try taxidermy without skinning the specimen, which some people find hard to stomach.

What do you think of him, sir, for a specimen of the Dotheboys Hall feeding?

Word Value for specimen
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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