preserved specimen

collocation in English

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preserve
noun
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/prɪˈzɜːv/us
/prɪˈzɝːv/
a food made from fruit or vegetables boiled with sugar and water until it becomes a ...
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specimen
noun[C]
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/ˈspes.ə.mɪn/us
/ˈspes.ə.mɪn/
something shown or examined as an example; a ...
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(Definition ofpreserveandspecimenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Wellpreservedspecimenshowing the flat to slightly domed endopodal lobes with the reticulate scratch mark pattern.
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The spots appear to have faded in thepreservedspecimen.
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Preservedspecimenhave a length of 2530 mm and a width of 68 mm.
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Apreservedspecimenis called a fossil if it is older than the arbitrary date of 10,000 years ago.
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As a rule it is not difficult to guess which eyes are which in a living orpreservedspecimen, but sometimes it can be.
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In many cases the type will be a particularpreservedspecimenstored in a herbarium, although there are other kinds of type.
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Such apreservedspecimenis called a fossil if it is older than some minimum age, most often the arbitrary date of 10,000 years.
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The length of apreservedspecimenis 3040 mm.
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The size ofpreservedspecimenis up to 60 mm.
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Some have been described on the basis of a single, poorlypreservedspecimen, and this makes deducing their phylogenetic relationships difficult.
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The bestpreservedspecimenseems to be a subadult individual on the basis of features of the skull table.
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It is probably the bestpreservedspecimenof a plesiosaur yet discovered.
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Individual prey items were removed from stomachs of preserved specimens, measured and identified.
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A tuft of feathers on the back are specialized and are lipid rich which causes the feathers to stick together in preserved specimens.
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