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specimen
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of SPECIMEN
1
a member of the human race <he's a particularly handsome specimen>
Synonyms baby, being, bird, bod [British], body, character, cookie (or cooky), creature, customer, devil, duck, egg, face, fish, guy, head, human being, individual, life, man, mortal, party, person, personage, scout, slob, sort, soul, specimen, stiff, thing, wight
2
one of a group or collection that shows what the whole is like <chose one frog as a good specimen of the breed>
Synonyms case, exemplar, exemplification, illustration, instance, prototype, representative, sample, specimen
Related Words archetype, classic, locus classicus, paradigm; cross section, microcosm; evidence, indication, manifestation, sign
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