species

Definitions

1. 1noun

   Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

2. 2noun

   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. 3noun

   In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.

4. 4noun

   A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.

5. 5noun

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

6. 6noun

   A public spectacle or exhibition.

7. 7noun

   A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

8. 8noun

   An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.

9. 9noun

   The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

10. 10noun

    a specific kind of something

    "a species of molecule"

    "a species of villainy"

11. 11noun

    (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed