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noun/ˈspiːʃiːz//ˈspiːsiːz//ˈspiːʃi.ɪz/
  1. 1

    A type or kind. (Compare race.)countableuncountable

    • the male species
    • a new species of war
  2. 2

    A type or kind. (Compare race.); A group of sexually reproducing organisms of which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction, usually having similar appearance.countableuncountable

    • This species of animal is unique to the area.
  3. 3

    A type or kind. (Compare race.); A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.countableuncountable

    • Hence, in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment and wide experience seems the only guide to follow.
    • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
  4. 4

    A type or kind. (Compare race.); An individual or kind of a biological species.countableuncountable

  5. 5

    A type or kind. (Compare race.); A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.countableuncountable

  6. 6

    A type or kind. (Compare race.); A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.countableuncountable

  7. 7

    An image, an appearance, a spectacle.; The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.countableobsoleteuncountable

    • I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope.
  8. 8

    An image, an appearance, a spectacle.; Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.countableobsoleteuncountable

    • Wit,[…]the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.
    • the species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet
  9. 9

    Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.countableuncountable

  10. 10

    Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.countableuncountable

    • There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.
noun/ˈspiːʃiːz//ˈspiːsiːz//ˈspiːʃi.ɪz/
  1. 1

    plural of specieform-ofplural

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