specimen applies to any example or sample whether representative or merely existent and available.

SPECIMEN definition: a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, plant, mineral, part, etc. See examples of specimen used in a sentence.

medical A specimen is a small amount of something, such as urine or blood, taken for testing. You'll find specimens of most of the kind of letters you will need to write at every stage of the …

A specimen is a small quantity of someone's urine, blood, or other body fluid which is examined in a medical laboratory, in order to find out if they are ill or if they have been drinking alcohol or …

specimen meaning, definition, what is specimen: a small amount or piece that is taken fr...: Learn more.

There are 15 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word specimen, four of which are labelled obsolete, and one of which is considered derogatory. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, …

something used as a sample (of a group or kind of something, especially an object to be studied or to be put in a collection).