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⇒ specie (species is its own plural; specie is a separate word that means coin money) |
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| gen. |
type or kind (plural species: the male species • a new species of war  wiktionary.org) |
| biol. |
a group of plants or animals having similar appearance (plural species: This species of animal is unique to the area. • We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. wiktionary.org); a category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank (plural species: 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. • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants. • Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. wiktionary.org) |
| gem. |
used in gemology to refer to individual gems that have distinct characteristics which may be defined and verified |
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a mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system (plural species wiktionary.org) |
| money |
coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie (There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now. wiktionary.org) |
| obs. |
the image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection (I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope. wiktionary.org); 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. (1668) • the species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet (1704) wiktionary.org); a public spectacle or exhibition (wiktionary.org) |
| pharma. |
a component part of compound medicine; a simple (wiktionary.org) |
| phys., chem. |
a particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other partic (plural species wiktionary.org) |
| rel., christ. |
either of the two elements of the eucharist after they have been consecrated (wiktionary.org) |
| uncom. |
an officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; especially, one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture (wiktionary.org) |
