species
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːʃiːz/
ipa: /ˈspiːsiːz/
other: /-ɪz/
other: /-iːz/
rhymes: -iːʃiːz
rhymes: -iːsiːz
Forms: form: species
form: specieses
Etymology: From Latin speciēs (“appearance; quality”), from speciō (“see”) + -iēs suffix signifying abstract noun. Doublet of spice.
Senses: examples: text: the male species
text: a new species of war
text: What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
ref: 1871, Richard Holt Hutton, Essays, Theological and Literary:
text: He went on kissing her with unflagging industry, while she remained limply in his arms, in a species of satisfied trance.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 122:
glosses: A type or kind. (Compare race.)
examples: text: This species of animal is unique to the area.
text: 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.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 103:
text: 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.
ref: 2012 January 23, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 70:
text: 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.
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Her sincerity touched extranet viewers and donations for war relief efforts are pouring in, both to the Alliance and its alien allies.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: War Assets: Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani:
glosses: A type or kind. (Compare race.)
A group of plants or animals in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction, usually having similar appearance.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Variation under Nature”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 47:
text: Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A type or kind. (Compare race.)
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A type or kind. (Compare race.)
A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type or kind. (Compare race.)
A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
examples: text: I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
text: the species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
examples: text: There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.
ref: 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures:
glosses: Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
glosses: A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
Derived terms: aggregate species
biospecies
chemical species
chronospecies
closed species
cloud species
coenospecies
collective species
cospecies
counterspecies
ecospecies
endangered species
ethospecies
flagship species
genomospecies
genospecies
heterospecies
host species
ichnospecies
infima species
infraspecies
intentional species
interspecies
intraspecies
introduced species
invasive species
keystone species
Lazarus species
microspecies
monospecies
morphospecies
multispecies
native species
neospecies
nothospecies
octave species
oospecies
paraspecies
phenospecies
phylospecies
pioneer species
quasispecies
reactive oxygen species
ribospecies
ring species
semispecies
species barrier
species complex
species dysphoria
species epithet
species-ism
speciesism
speciesist
specieslike
species-monger
species name
species problem
species-rich
specieswide
subspecies
superspecies
threatened species
transspecies
type species
Related terms: word: speciate
word: speciation
word: specie
word: specific
word: speciose
word: specious
word: spectacle
word: spectacular
word: speculate
word: speculation
word: speculative
word: speculator
word: race
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: domain
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: kingdom
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: phylum
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: division
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: class
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: order
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: family
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: genus
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: superspecies
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: subspecies
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: form
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
horticulture
agriculture
business
lifestyle
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: variety
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
horticulture
agriculture
business
lifestyle
sense: taxonomy, rank
word: cultivar