specimen
noun
[ ˈspɛsɪmɪn ]
• an 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"
• used to refer humorously to a person or animal.
• "Carla could not help feeling a degree of reluctant admiration for this odd female specimen"
Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘pattern, model’): from Latin, from specere ‘to look’.
