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The phrase "a single specimen" is correct and can be used in written English in various contexts.
It is typically used to refer to a single example or instance of something. Example: The scientist carefully studied a single specimen of the rare butterfly species. Here, "a single specimen" refers to one specific butterfly that was studied by the scientist. Another example: The archeologist unearthed a single specimen of a Roman coin. In this case, "a single specimen" is used to describe one individual Roman coin that was discovered by the archeologist.
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A single specimen can produce a million seeds.
The second oldest species is Proteroctopus ribeti a single specimen from the Jurassic of France was published in 1982.
It is difficult to piece together even a single specimen, let alone a scene.
It will take a while to figure out whether this short weaning period was true of all Neanderthals, because the study focused on a single specimen.
Within only two years, the scale insect was under such thorough control that one could search for days among the orange groves without finding a single specimen.
The baiji was declared "functionally extinct" after survey mission in 2006 failed to find a single specimen.
In 2005, a man was accused of possessing 19,000 indecent images (including some by Hamilton, freely available on Amazon), and pleaded guilty to a single specimen charge.
"It's just a single specimen in a very special context.
Infilled regions show postcranial elements restored from a single specimen.
In the crops section, some ancient apples in the US grow on a single specimen tree.
Only a single specimen of a pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) had just one spleen.
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