Species is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPECIES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Latin) a population of individuals which share the same gene pool and which is unable to interbreed with closely related populations to produce viable offspring
• 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".
• a group subordinate to a genus and containing individuals agreeing in some common attributes and called by a common name.
• a kind or sort
• used humorously to refer to people who share a characteristic or occupation
• a particular kind of atom, molecule, ion, or particle
• the visible form of each of the elements of consecrated bread and wine in the Eucharist.
• group of plants or animals that are related closely enough to interbreed naturally
• 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.
• (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed
• a specific kind of something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• coined money

Words related to SPECIES

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Words that contain SPECIES

ecospecies16 speciesism16 speciesist14 subspecies16 cenospecies17 speciesisms17 speciesists15 coenospecies18 interspecies16 intraspecies16 microspecies20 multispecies18 superspecies18

How to use SPECIES in a sentence

• This kind of practice offers one of the finest fields for deception of any species of empirical delusion held out to the public at the present day.
• There are about nine species of them, mostly found in the seas.
• It was a Button-Rose of the smallest species, the outspread blossom scarce exceeding in size a shilling-piece.
• The female of his species, as is the case in all natural animals, is content to be less adorned.
• This is a common European species, growing from 2 feet to 3 feet high, with much smaller leaves than the former, and small pinky-white flowers produced in summer.
• It is not a very satisfactory species for cultivation in this country.
• It was all governed by the infernal attraction exercised by the female of the species.
• There are several species of cloak ferns, but only one within our limits.
• They seemed in their motionless silence there instinct with life, a life, moreover, that breathed about her a species of terrible soft enchantment that bewitched.
• She had a species of low fever induced by anxiety and fatigue.
• It is a dialogue, or species of composition which in itself requires all the mastery of a complete writer with grace and spirit to support.
• The present species is of somewhat similar character, but is, we believe, new alike to gardens and to science.
• Indeed, some of the most significant facts of variation have been first made out in the case of the human species.
• But he was also human and, as one of their own species, had his claim on them.
• For the lower species the earth will be restored to the centre of the universe and man to pre-eminence on the earth.
• Therefore, since the sacramental species are accidents, it seems that no substance can be generated from them.
• Eagles have often been instrumental in bringing new species of animals to islands where they had previously been unknown, their purpose being to provide food for their own young.
• I found four species that resist the blight very well among six kinds I have tried out on my place.
• Nature, first of all, sees to the preservation of the species, and acts in a broad way that life may not perish.
• Species with habits widely different from those of their allies.
• It need not be supposed that all varieties or incipient species necessarily attain the rank of species.
• Moreover, the species of the large genera are related to each other, in the same manner as the varieties of any one species are related to each other.
• Some authors have even supposed that as the individual has a definite length of life, so have species a definite duration.
• Not only have many fresh-water species, belonging to quite different classes, an enormous range, but allied species prevail in a remarkable manner throughout the world.
• But why this should be a law of nature if each species has been independently created, no man can explain.
• Ramsay had no other motive for giving this work to the public, than that of humanity, or a wish to serve this much-injured part of the human species.
• I first named the species as nearly as I could do so, and then laid them out to be pressed and dried.

Similar words containing SPECIE without suffix s

specie10 ecospecies16 speciesism16 speciesist14 subspecies16 cenospecies17 speciesisms17 speciesists15 coenospecies18 interspecies16 intraspecies16 microspecies20 multispecies18 superspecies18

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