The earliest specimens are completely black, a type that remains in production throughout later developments.

However it was well known to the local people before and several earlier specimens had been ignored.

His novel is an early specimen of what you might call European Community fiction.

While earlier specimens have been recovered from north Africa, how the species evolved and spread is still uncertain.

Almost all versions included a scabbard, which is not found in earliest specimens.

Johnson's taxidermy course led to many of the early specimens in the museum.

Not that any one differed essentially from the earlier specimens we had found.

The early English specimen in the chair before him twinkled.

The earlier specimens (from 1.8 to 1.2 million years ago) are sometimes seen as a different species, or a subspecies.

Especially early specimens feature hollow conical feet with walls of even thickness.