specimen

noun

• 1an individual animal, plant, piece of a mineral, etc. used as an example of its species or type for scientific study or display: specimens of copper ore
• an example of something regarded as typical of its class or group: [as modifier]:a specimen paper of the new test
• a sample for medical testing, especially of urine.

• 2 informal used to refer humorously to a person or animal:Carla could not help feeling a degree of reluctant admiration for this odd female specimen