Specimen

(1) Specimen [ Taxonomy - Biology ]


	In Biology: a specimen is an individual organism from a scientific sample, for example an individual plant of a certain species, subspecies, form, etc. In Taxonomy: it is an individual organism regarded as typical of taxonomic group
(see type specimen or holotype, type species, type genus )

(2) Specimen [ Biology ]


	A group of clones derived by vegetative or asexual multiplication from a single individual and forming a single entity.

(3) Specimen [ Horticulture ]


	It horticulture is commonly named specimen any individual plant or animal belonging to a certain species, variety or cultivar

(..the specimens of Mammillaria theresae available for sale at the nursery...)

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