species
Type or kind.
He went on kissing her with unflagging industry, while she remained limply in his arms, in a species of satisfied trance.
A group of plants or animals in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction, usually having similar appearance.
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.
(biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.
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.
(chemistry, physics) A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.
(mineralogy) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
(obsolete) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.
Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.
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.
(Christianity) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
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