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Definition of Species

Species Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image. 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. In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation. A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth. Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie. A public spectacle or exhibition. A component part of compound medicine; a simple. An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture. The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure. Related Definitions: According, Agreeing, American, An, And, Animal, Another, Any, Appearance, Aromatic, As, Associated, Be, By, Called, Circulating, Cloth, Coin, Coined, Common, Component, Compound, Comprehending, Conception, Containing, Cunning, Designated, Determined, European, Exhibition, Existing, Extending, Fashion, Figure, For, Form, From, Generic, Generosity, Genus, Given, Gold, Group, Image, Imagination, In, Is, It, Kind, Less, Like, Low, Making, Man, May, Medicine, Medium, Metal, Mixture, More, Name, Observation, Of, Officinal, One, Or, Other, Part, Percept, Permanent, Powder, Presentation, Properties, Public, Received, Regarded, Respect, Science, Scientific, Sensible, Shape, Silver, Simple, Sort, Specie, Species, Spectacle, Subordinated, Tea, The, Thus, Tisane, To, Turn, Under, Used, Variety, Visible, Which, With

Species Quotations It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Charles Darwin An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Mohandas Gandhi Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. Friedrich Nietzsche Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. Samuel Johnson

Species Translations species in Dutch is soort species in German is Sorte, Spezies, Art {f} species in Italian is fare species in Spanish is especie species in Swedish is art

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