specimens
- 1Plural of specimen.
The museum displays rare botanical specimens gathered over two centuries.
The lab processed dozens of blood specimens before noon.
Note
The plural carries every use of the singular, and each field puts it to different work. Museums display specimens that stand for a whole class, and laboratories test specimens taken for diagnosis. In banking and postal work, specimens are notes and stamps sent to officials so they can recognize genuine issues and catch forgeries. Applied to people, the word turns personal: a sneer for contemptible types, a joke about eligible men. Only context tells which.
specimens is a form of specimen
specimen, noun: A single instance that stands as an example of a larger class or group. Full entry
- Forms
- specimenspecimens plural
- Spelling
- specimen → specimens: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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