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say it: SPES-uh-muhn
specimen is a noun meaning "an example regarded as typical of its class". It is pronounced /ˈspɛsəmən/ — SPES-uh-muhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an example regarded as typical of its class
a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
“they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for specimen come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.