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"specific" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often particular (10 letters).
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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