species
noun
[ ˈspiːʃiːz ]
• a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. The species is the principal natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a Latin binomial, e.g. Homo sapiens.
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• a kind or sort.
• "a species of invective at once tough and suave"
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• the visible form of each of the elements of consecrated bread and wine in the Eucharist.
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late Middle English: from Latin, literally ‘appearance, form, beauty’, from specere ‘to look’.
