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speciose

adj

Etymology

From species + -ose.

Definitions

  1. Rich in species, such as when many species are members of a single genus.

    • 1991, David M. Raup, Extinction: Bad genes or bad luck?, W. W. Norton and Company, pp 55-56, The most speciose living mammal genus (a small insectivore) has about 160 species.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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