Type Specimen

Definition: Type Specimen

Type Specimen

Noun

1. The original specimen from which the description of anew species is made.

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Biology & Biotechnology

Mining

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Synonym: Type Specimen

Books

• The Type Specimen Book: 544 Different Typefaces with Over 3000 Sizes Shown in Complete Alphabets (reference)

• A type specimen register of Cactaceae in Swiss herbaria = Register der Typ-Belege von Cactaceen in Schweizer Herbarien (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Plate IX. 27. Raia radiata, Donovan. From a specimen collected off Province town, Mass. (About 4/7 natural size.) 28. Raia hyperborea, Collett. From Collett, Fishes Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition. 29. Raia laevis, Mitchill . Specimen from FISH HAWK in Narragansett Bay, at 8 1/4 fathoms. 30. Raia gra nulata, Gill. From type specimen collected on Le Have Bank. 1/14 size. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

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Danish

typeeksemplar (nomenclatural type). (various references)

French

type (type), nomenclature (nomenclatural type). (various references)

German

Typus Standard (nomenclatural type). (various references)

Italian

specimen del tipo (nomenclatural type). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

模式標本 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

もしきひょうほ�". (various references)

Pig Latin

ypetay ecimenspay

Portuguese

tipo (beggar, bird, bugger, cod, description, font, joker, josser, kind, lazarus, letter, norm, person, portrait, sort, specimen, type), nomenclatura (tariff schedule). (various references)

Spanish

tipo (blighter, build, character, disposition, especial, fellow, figure, genre, genus, guy, kind, make, print, proposition, rate, shape, sort, type), nomenclatura (nomenclature). (various references)

Swedish

typexemplar (nomenclatural type). (various references)

Turkish

model (archetype, copybook, design, exemplar, fashion plate, form, guide, lay figure, manikin, mannequin, model, norm, pattern, poser, sample, shape, sitter, specimen, standard, stencil, type, version, vintage), örnek (copy, example, exemplar, exemplary, exemplification, guide, illustration, instance, lead, model, norm, object lesson, pattern, precedent, reference, representative, sample, sampling, specimen, trial, type, version). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: centimes, cysteine, emetines, epicenes, pectines, pipestem, snippety, specimen, tenesmic.

-5 letters: cements, centime, cymenes, cystein, cystine, ectypes, emetics, emetine, emetins, empties, emptins, enemies, entices, epeeist, epicene, incepts, inspect, mistype, pectens, pectins, pepsine, peptics, septime, snippet, steepen, syenite.