type specimen
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of type specimen
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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In 2020, the authors set a goal to get a genome sequence for every Psilocybe type specimen.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2023
The type specimen of H. habilis, for example, includes a 1.8-million-year-old lower jaw called OH 7 from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 4, 2015
When scientists disagree on whether something is a new species or a variant of a known one, they often need to refer back to the type specimen or even return to where it was collected.
From Nature ● Sep. 12, 2013
Normally, the type specimen of a species is the first set of bones found, but since no first set of Homo sapiens bones exists, there was a vacancy, which Cope desired to fill.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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