This term is obsolete
术语信息
definition
A material entity that has a material sample role. A material entity takes on the material sample role by being the output of a material samping process. That is, is selected for study, collected, and submitted to an institution for preservation or study.
example of usage
A jar of water, the microbes that were filtered from that water, the DNA extracted from those microbes, a subsample of that DNA.
A herbarium or museum specimen.