10 definitions found for species

Species SPECIES, n. spe'shiz. [L. from specio, to see. See Special.]
1. In zoology, a collection of organized beings derived from one common parentage by natural generation, characterized by one peculiar from one common parentage by natural generation, characterized by one peculiar form, liable to vary within certain narrow limits. These accidental and limited variations are varieties. Different races from the same parents are called varieties.
2. In botany, all the plants which spring from the same see, or which resemble each other in certain character or in variable forms. There are as many species as there are different in variable forms or circumstances only with in certain narrow limits. These accidental and limited variations are varieties. Different races from the same parents are called varieties.
3. In logic, a special idea, corresponding to the specific distinctions of things in nature.
4. Sort; kind; in a loose sense; as a species of low cunning in the world; as a species of generosity; a species of cloth.
5. Appearance to the senses; visible or sensible representation. An apparent diversity between the species visible and audible, is that the visible doth not mingle in the medium, but the audible doth. The species of letters illuminated with indigo and violet. [Little used.]
6. Representation to the min. 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 present. [Little used.]
7. Show; visible exhibition. Shows and species serve best with the common people. [Not in use.]
8. Coin, or coined silver and gold, used as a circulating medium; as the current species of Europe. In modern practice. this word is contracted into specie. What quantity of specie has the bank in its vault? What is the amount of all the current specie in the country? What is the value in specie, of a bill of exchange? We receive payment for goods in specie, not in bank notes.
9. In pharmacy, a simple; a component part of a compound medicine.
10. The old pharmaceutical term for powders.

species n 1: (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed 2: a specific kind of something; "a species of molecule"; "a species of villainy"

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species I. noun (plural species) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, appearance, kind, species, from specere to look — more at spy Date: 14th century 1. a. kind, sort b. a class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name; specifically a logical division of a genus or more comprehensive class <confessing sins in species and in number> c. the human race ; human beings — often used with the <survival of the species in the nuclear age> d. (1) a category of biological classification ranking immediately below the genus or subgenus, comprising related organisms or populations potentially capable of interbreeding, and being designated by a binomial that consists of the name of a genus followed by a Latin or latinized uncapitalized noun or adjective agreeing grammatically with the genus name (2) an individual or kind belonging to a biological species e. a particular kind of atomic nucleus, atom, molecule, or ion 2. the consecrated eucharistic elements of the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Eucharist 3. a. a mental image; also a sensible object b. an object of thought correlative with a natural object II. adjective Date: 1899 belonging to a biological species as distinguished from a horticultural variety <a species rose>

species
n. (pl. same)
1 a class of things having some common characteristics.
2 Biol. a category in the system of classification of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
3 a kind or sort.
4 Logic a group subordinate to a genus and containing individuals agreeing in some common attribute(s) and called by a common name.
5 Law a form or shape given to materials.
6 Eccl. the visible form of each of the elements of consecrated bread and wine in the Eucharist.
Etymology: L, = appearance, kind, beauty, f. specere look

species (species) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. A species is a class of plants or animals whose members have the same main characteristics and are able to breed with each other. Pandas are an endangered species... There are several thousand species of trees here. N-COUNT

species ˈspi:ʃi:z n. (pl. same) 1 a class of things having some common characteristics. 2 Biol. a category in the system of classification of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. 3 a kind or sort. 4 Logic a group subordinate to a genus and containing individuals agreeing in some common attribute(s) and called by a common name. 5 Law a form or shape given to materials. 6 Eccl. the visible form of each of the elements of consecrated bread and wine in the Eucharist. [L, = appearance, kind, beauty, f. specere look]

Species Spe"cies, n. sing. & pl. [L., a sight, outward appearance, shape, form, a particular sort, kind, or quality, a species. See Spice, n., and cf. Specie, Special.] 1. Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image. [R.] ``The species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet.'' --Sir I. Newton. 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. --Dryden. Note: In the scholastic philosophy, the species was sensible and intelligible. The sensible species was that in any material, object which was in fact discerned by the mind through the organ of perception, or that in any object which rendered it possible that it should be perceived. The sensible species, as apprehended by the understanding in any of the relations of thought, was called an intelligible species. ``An apparent diversity between the species visible and audible is, that the visible doth not mingle in the medium, but the audible doth.'' --Bacon. 2. (Logic) A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species. 3. In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation. Note: In mineralogy and chemistry, objects which possess the same definite chemical structure, and are fundamentally the same in crystallization and physical characters, are classed as belonging to a species. In zo["o]logy and botany, a species is an ideal group of individuals which are believed to have descended from common ancestors, which agree in essential characteristics, and are capable of indefinitely continued fertile reproduction through the sexes. A species, as thus defined, differs from a variety or subspecies only in the greater stability of its characters and in the absence of individuals intermediate between the related groups. 4. A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth. 5. Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie. [Obs.] There was, in the splendor of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now. --Arbuthnot. 6. A public spectacle or exhibition. [Obs.] --Bacon. 7. (Pharmacy) (a) A component part of compound medicine; a simple. (b) (Med.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture. --Quincy. 8. (Civil Law) The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure. --Burill. Incipient species (Zo["o]l.), a subspecies, or variety, which is in process of becoming permanent, and thus changing to a true species, usually by isolation in localities from which other varieties are excluded.

species n. 1. Group (subordinate to a genus), class, collection, assemblage. 2. Kind, sort, description, variety. 3. (Law.) Form, figure, fashion, shape.

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