Order and Specimen

Order

Order noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.

Usage example: collects movie posters, photographs and autographs of the stars, and other memorabilia of that order

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Specimen and order are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Specimen" instead a noun "Order".

Nearby Words: ordered, orderly, ordering, orderliness

Specimen noun - A member of the human race.

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Order and specimen are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Order" instead a noun "Specimen".

good	good order	good specimen
special	special order	special specimen
perfect	perfect order	perfect specimen
complete	complete order	complete specimen
Other adjectives: original, single, entire, real, large, tall, last, previous.

Invoked in The Hound of the Baskervilles where Stapleton is a butterfly collector willing to run through a dangerous mire in order to collect a rare specimen.

Source: Chasing a Butterfly
Science Is Bad: Some scientists are eager to get ahold of Yuuno in order to examine his damaged Linker Core in Pain, and view him as more of a specimen than a human.

Source: Fan Fic / Relationships Series
His entire goal is to kill the last living specimen of an endangered giant eagle, and in order to do this he imprisons a little boy—who only fell into his clutches because of one of McLeach's traps that was intended for animals.

Source: Egomaniac Hunter

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