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species

noun
/ˈspiːʃiːz/

Etymology

From Latin speciēs (“appearance; quality”), from speciō (“see”) + -iēs suffix signifying abstract noun. Doublet of spice.

  1. derived from speciēs — “appearance; quality”

Definitions

  1. A type or kind. (Compare race.)

    • the male species
    • a new species of war
    • What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.

  2. An image, an appearance, a spectacle.

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

  3. Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium

      Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

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

    2. A component part of compound medicine

      A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

    3. plural of specie

The neighborhood

Derived

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 · +52 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for species. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA