| Specimen (n.) A prime representative; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; a specimen of one's art; a part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited. Thesaurus Entries case, case history, case in point, cross section, embodiment, example, exemplar, exponent, illustration, instance, little bite, little smack, model, pattern, piece, representation, representative, sample, sampling, sort, species, swatch, taste, taster, type, typification, variety |