Definitions
stated explicitly or in detail
Word origin
From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind”) + -ific.
Used in a sentence
“Holonyms: generic, familial”
“Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific”
“Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Exact and clear”8 letters
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