個体

こたい
JLPT:N2
Frequency:
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An individual organism or specimen (one entity of a population or group), often used in biology.

NounNoun Taking 'の'

Examples

この森には同じ種の個体が何千匹もいる。

There are thousands of individuals of the same species in this forest.

標本箱には珍しい個体が丁寧に保存されていた。

The specimen box carefully preserved a rare specimen.

実験では個体ごとの差異を記録した。

In the experiment, differences for each individual specimen were recorded.