Meaning of species | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type or kind. (Compare race.)
   countable, uncountable
2. type, sort, kind
3. 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.
   countable, uncountable
4. A group of organisms having many characteristics in common and ranking below a genus. Organisms that reproduce sexually and belong to the same species interbreed and produce fertile offspring. See Table at taxonomy.
5. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
6. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.
   countable, uncountable
7. A group of similar organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
8. third-person singular imperative
9. An individual or kind of a biological species.
   countable, uncountable
10. A class that is defined by the common attribute or attributes possessed by all its members:breed, cast, description, feather, ilk, kind, lot, manner, mold, nature, order, sort, stamp, stripe, type, variety.
11. A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.
    countable, uncountable
12. especie, clasificación de organismos vivos pertenecientes a una categoría biológica.
13. A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
    countable, uncountable
14. Biology A group of closely related organisms that are very similar to each other and are usually capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. The species is the fundamental category of taxonomic classification, ranking below a genus or subgenus. Species names are represented in binomial nomenclature by an uncapitalized Latin adjective or noun following a capitalized genus name, as in Ananas comosus, the pineapple, and Equus caballus, the horse.
    Biology
15. An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
16. The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
17. Logic A class of individuals or objects grouped by virtue of their common attributes and assigned a common name; a division subordinate to a genus.
    Logic
18. Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
19. Chemistry A set of atoms, molecules, ions, or other chemical entities that possess the same distinct characteristics with respect to a chemical process or measurement.
    Chemistry
20. Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
    countable, uncountable
21. A kind, variety, or type: "No species of performing artist is as self-critical as a dancer" (Susan Sontag).
22. Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
    countable, uncountable
23. Roman Catholic Church a. The outward appearance or form of the Eucharistic elements that is retained after their consecration.
    Roman Catholic Church
24. A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
    countable, uncountable
25. (Biology) biology a. any of the taxonomic groups into which a genus is divided, the members of which are capable of interbreeding: often containing subspecies, varieties, or races. A species is designated in italics by the genus name followed by the specific name, for example Felis domesticus (the domestic cat). Abbreviation: sp
    biology

Equivalents

Examples

“the male species”

“a new species of war”

“What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.”

“He went on kissing her with unflagging industry, while she remained limply in his arms, in a species of satisfied trance.”

“This species of animal is unique to the area.”

“Louise felt raised above her species; a voice had spoken within her inmost soul, whose revealings were vouchsafed but to the chosen few; and what had been indifference, was now disdain.”

“We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water.”

“Westerlund News Reporter Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani reached out recently to her viewers with a wartime plea for unity and cooperation among all galactic species. UPDATED Her sincerity touched extranet viewers and donations for war relief efforts are pouring in, both to the Alliance and its alien allies.”

“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.”

“Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.”

“I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope.”

“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”

“There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.”

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