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(1) Specimen  [ Taxonomy - Biology ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

     
 
  1. In Biology: a specimen is an individual organism from a scientific sample, for example an individual plant of a certain species, subspecies, form, etc.
     
  2. 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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