species - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'species' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Species

[ n.]

- Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
- 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.
- In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.
- A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.
- Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
- A public spectacle or exhibition.
- A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
- An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.
- The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

Meaning of 'species' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . species

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- a specific kind of something

Example in sentence:

a species of molecule;
a species of villainy

Nearby Words:

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Type species
Type species is the species that is the permanent reference example of the genus.
Species
Species is the basic taxonomic group; in bacteriology, a species consists of a type strain together with all the other strains that are considered

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