This standard is a full description of what the ideal specimen of this breed should look like and how it should act.

The little girl who made the remark was an ideal specimen of the village Sunday-school child.

There were a few Russians in his band, but they didn't strike her as ideal specimens of Soviet manhood.

These standards describe an ideal specimen and are supposed to relate a dog's form to the original function it performed.

Every plant and flower, every stone in every walkway had to be an ideal specimen.

Roundworms are ideal specimens for geneticists to play with because they grow old and die in less than three weeks.

Descriptions of what each breed's ideal specimen would look like were written in "breed standards," a measure against which dogs could be judged in the show ring.

It was sent to kidnap an ideal specimen, abducting Hitomi and keeping its pursuers from finding her.

Is this miniature poodle truly a more ideal specimen of its breed than that Kerry blue terrier?

This implies that they are indeed distinct, albeit closely related species, making them ideal specimens for studying sympatric evolution.