Sentence examples for a botanical specimen from inspiring English sources

The kola nut from Angola is shown in close-up, like a botanical specimen.

From a distance, the Bailey registers as a delicate line drawing of a botanical specimen, flanked by elliptical patterns.

And through all this drama, Grünewald never misses the telling picturesque detail: a botanical specimen, a string of prayer beads, or a crystal carafe.

Each page serves as a botanical specimen of sorts, in keeping with the urge behind this book, which is "to provide new information and a new way of looking at plants and gardening from a more botanical viewpoint".

I'm sure the heft and value of such a botanical specimen mattered little to Chuck, who spaded up the sprout in a spasm of mischief and sentiment, from one Missouri Twain fan to another.

These checks should encourage you to investigate the backgrounds of the other paintings, where, for the most part, the low horizon is occupied by a diagrammatic plant or tree: a botanical specimen pressed into service as a reluctant symbol for human vulnerability in a hostile world.

It's presented like a cut-out botanical specimen.

Or at least more than most of our friends: Whenever we serve it, guests' eyes widen as though they were tasting some wondrous botanical specimen newly brought back from the Indies.

The first known botanical specimen collection of A. obovatus was made by Scottish surgeon and naturalist Archibald Menzies during the visit of the Vancouver Expedition to King George Sound in September and October 1791.

Unusual found objects – glass conicals, turtle shells, a collection of botanical specimens in jars of formaldehyde – are positioned artfully throughout the rooms.

"We have hiking trails, a wildlife refuge and a huge number of botanical specimens.