specimen's

Check the nursery label for the specimen's expected mature size before purchasing.

Year of the Tree: Save It or Chop It? Anne Marie Chaker 2011

Instead, they focus on the specimen's age, rarity and quality of preservation.

Big Dig 2010

Upon arrival, Kate soon finds herself at odds with Halvorson about how best to proceed with the discovery - an alien spaceship with a mysterious and sinister frozen THING found nearby - specifically whether to transfer the specimen undisturbed to a more appropriate facility for analysis, or, per Halvorson's wishes, to drill into the specimen's ice encasement for a definitive tissue sample.

Joel Edgerton & Mary Elizabeth Winstead Cast in The Thing « FirstShowing.net 2010

Most people tend to see sperm, and their fount, as somewhat expendable due to sheer numbers, the ease of donorship, and the fact that, in many cases, donors lack an interest in fostering any relationship with their specimen's recipient or any resulting child.

Beth Kohl: Women, Our Relationship to Childbearing and Egg Donorship 2008

Also baffling is the amount of tabloid attention devoted to this useless specimen's private life.

"You're just some racist who can't tie my laces" - When mixing pop and politics goes horribly wrong Johnny Guitar 2008

Indeed the only known specimen's exact geological age is unknown.

Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006

Indeed the only known specimen's exact geological age is unknown.

Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians Darren Naish 2006

See "Reburial Dispute" (ARCHAEOLOGY Online, October 10, 1996) for a brief discussion of the Kennewick specimen's relation to other early North American skeletons.

Special Report: A Battle Over Bones 1997

Depending on the specimen's condition, it would be sent to a master taxidermist and could be on display within a month or two.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

In that case the attempt to acquire could conceivably arouse mutually protective instincts, something which would be interesting to observe but contrary to the greater object of trying to secure a specimen's cooperation.

A Call to Arms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991