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- noun Plural form of
specimen .
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Examples
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One of the most telling of the specimens is a partial maxilla that still houses its slightly recurved canine tusk.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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But these specimens from the Cave of the Swords are small fry in size when compared with the latest discoveries, 300 meters below the surface, in the Cave of the Crystals.
Did you know? Chihuahua caves house the world's largest crystals 2009
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But these specimens from the Cave of the Swords are small fry in size when compared with the latest discoveries, 300 meters below the surface, in the Cave of the Crystals.
Did you know? Chihuahua caves house the world's largest crystals 2009
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Bistahieversor, known from both adult and subadult specimens from the Kirtland Formation, would have measured some thirty feet in life.
"If there really was a God here, he'd have raised a hand by now." thingunderthest 2010
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The laboratory will accept blood or skin specimens for establishment of permanent cell lines.
State-of-the-art cytogenetic and molecular cytogenetic analysis 2010
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Ross Mantle for The Wall Street Journal The conservation, restoration and installation effort for the three specimens is expected to take 26,800 hours of work, museum officials said.
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Bistahieversor, known from both adult and subadult specimens from the Kirtland Formation, would have measured some thirty feet in life.
Meet Abydosaurus and Bistahieversor greygirlbeast 2010
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But these specimens from the Cave of the Swords are small fry in size when compared with the latest discoveries, 300 meters below the surface, in the Cave of the Crystals.
Did you know? Chihuahua caves house the world's largest crystals 2009
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That's immaturity finding immaturity and declaring that true love between superior specimens is born.
Carolyn Hax: Explaining one's divorce to a date (continued) Carolyn Hax 2010
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Positive specimens from the same patient submitted within 14 days of each other were counted only once.
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