species
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
biology
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
taxonomy
Etymology: From Latin speciēs (“appearance; quality”), from speciō (“see”) + -iēs suffix signifying abstract noun. Doublet of spice.
Inflected forms:
form: species
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: specieses
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: A type or kind. (Compare race.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
gloss: A type or kind. (Compare race.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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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.
gloss: A type or kind. (Compare race.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A type or kind. (Compare race.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type or kind. (Compare race.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type or kind. (Compare race.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope.
gloss: An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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
gloss: Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.
gloss: A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: speciate
speciation
specie
specific
speciose
specious
spectacle
spectacular
speculate
speculation
speculative
speculator
race
Derived words: adventive species
aggregate species
alien species
allospecies
biospecies
chemical species
chronospecies
closed species
cloud species
coenospecies
collective species
cospecies
counterspecies
cryptic species
cryptospecies
cytospecies
ecospecies
endangered species
ethnospecies
ethospecies
exotic species
flagship species
foreign species
genomospecies
genospecies
heterospecies
host species
ichnospecies
immigrant species
immunospecies
infima species
infraspecies
intentional species
interspecies
intraspecies
introduced species
invasive species
keystone species
Lazarus species
macrospecies
microspecies
monospecies
morphospecies
multispecies
native species
neospecies
nonindigenous species
non-native species
nonspecies
nothospecies
octave species
oospecies
open species
paraspecies
phenospecies
phylospecies
pioneer species
protospecies
pseudospecies
quasispecies
reactive oxygen species
ribospecies
ring species
semispecies
sibling species
specicide
speciecide
species aggregate
species barrier
species complex
species dysphoria
species epithet
species flock
species group
species-ism
speciesism
speciesist
speciesless
specieslike
species-monger
species name
species problem
species-rich
specieswide
subspecies
superspecies
supraspecies
threatened species
transspecies
trophospecies
type species
underspecies
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: soort
lang: Afrikaans
word: diersoort
lang: Afrikaans
word: plantsoort
lang: Afrikaans
word: voëlsoort
lang: Afrikaans
word: vissoort
lang: Albanian
word: specie
lang: Albanian
word: lloj
lang: Arabic
word: نَوْع
roman: nawʕ
lang: Armenian
word: տեսակ
roman: tesak
lang: Azerbaijani
word: növ
lang: Bashkir
word: төр
roman: tör
lang: Basque
word: espezie
lang: Belarusian
word: від
roman: vid
lang: Bengali
word: প্রজাতি
roman: projati
lang: Bulgarian
word: вид
roman: vid
lang: Burmese
word: မျိုးစိတ်
roman: myui:cit
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: вид
roman: vyd
lang: Catalan
word: espècie
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 物種 /物种
roman: zhǒnglèi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 種 /种
roman: zhǒng
lang: Czech
word: druh
lang: Danish
word: art
lang: Dutch
word: soort
lang: Estonian
word: liik
lang: Finnish
word: laji
lang: French
word: espèce
lang: Galician
word: especie
lang: Georgian
word: სახეობა
roman: saxeoba
lang: German
word: Art
lang: Greek
word: είδος
roman: eídos
lang: Hebrew
word: מִין
roman: min
lang: Hindi
word: जाति
roman: jāti
lang: Hungarian
word: faj
lang: Icelandic
word: tegund
lang: Ido
word: speco
lang: Irish
word: speiceas
lang: Italian
word: specie
lang: Japanese
word: 種類
roman: shurui
lang: Kazakh
word: түр
roman: tür
lang: Khmer
word: ប្រភេទ
roman: prɑɑpheit
lang: Korean
word: 종류
roman: jongnyu
lang: Korean
word: 종
roman: jong
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: cor
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: cure
lang: Kyrgyz
word: түр
roman: tür
lang: Lao
word: ສະປີຊີ
roman: sa pī sī
lang: Lao
word: ພັນ
roman: phan
lang: Lao
word: ເຍືີ່ອງ
roman: ny ʼang
lang: Latin
word: speciēs
lang: Latvian
word: suga
lang: Lithuanian
word: rūšis
lang: Macedonian
word: вид
roman: vid
lang: Malay
word: spesies
lang: Mongolian
word: зүйл
roman: züjl
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: art
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: art
lang: Pashto
word: نوع
roman: naw'a
lang: Dari
word: گُونَه
roman: gūna
lang: Dari
word: نَوع
roman: naw'
lang: Iranian Persian
word: گونِه
roman: gune
lang: Iranian Persian
word: نُوع
roman: now'
lang: Polish
word: gatunek
lang: Portuguese
word: espécie
lang: Romanian
word: specie
lang: Russian
word: вид
roman: vid
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: gnè
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: seòrsa
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вр́ста
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vŕsta
lang: Slovak
word: druh
lang: Slovene
word: vrsta
lang: Spanish
word: especie
lang: Swahili
word: aina
lang: Swedish
word: art
lang: Tagalog
word: espesye
lang: Tajik
word: навъ
roman: nav'
lang: Tajik
word: гуна
roman: guna
lang: Tatar
word: төр
roman: tör
lang: Thai
word: ชนิด
roman: chá-nít
lang: Thai
word: สปีชีส์
roman: sà-bpii-chîi
lang: Thai
word: พันธุ์
roman: pan
lang: Turkish
word: tür
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: نوع
roman: nevʼ
lang: Turkmen
word: görnüş
lang: Ukrainian
word: вид
roman: vyd
lang: Urdu
word: نَوع
roman: nau'
lang: Uyghur
word: تۈر
roman: tür
lang: Uzbek
word: tur
lang: Vietnamese
word: loài
lang: Welsh
word: rhywogaeth
lang: Yiddish
word: מין
roman: min