Specimen-plant
noun, Horticulture.
1.
a plant grown by itself for ornamental effect, rather than being massed with others in a bed or border.
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- Specing
noun 1. Usually, specs. specification (def 2). 2. speculation. adjective 3. built, done, bought, etc., as a speculation: the construction of spec houses. verb (used with object), spec’d or specked or specced, spec’ing or specking or speccing. 4. to provide specifications for: Their newest truck was spec’d by a computer. Idioms 5. on spec, made, […]
- Specint92
benchmark A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of integer benchmarks from SPEC (geometric mean of the 6 SPEC ratios of CINT92) which can be used to estimate a machine’s single-tasking performance on integer code. SPECint92 obsoletes SPECint89. Results (ftp://ftp.nosc.mil/pub/aburto/specin92.tbl). See also SPECbase_int92. (1994-11-14)
- Speciosity
noun, plural speciosities. 1. the quality or state of being specious. noun (pl) -ties 1. a thing or person that is deceptively attractive or plausible 2. the state of being specious 3. (obsolete) the state of being beautiful
- Specious
adjective 1. apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments. 2. pleasing to the eye but deceptive. 3. Obsolete. pleasing to the eye; fair. adjective 1. apparently correct or true, but actually wrong or false 2. deceptively attractive in appearance adjective plausible but not true; based on pretense; sophistic […]
- Speciously
adjective 1. apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments. 2. pleasing to the eye but deceptive. 3. Obsolete. pleasing to the eye; fair. adjective 1. apparently correct or true, but actually wrong or false 2. deceptively attractive in appearance adjective plausible but not true; based on pretense; sophistic […]