species

Plural

species

1. 1.A type or kind. (Compare race.)

   • This species of animal is unique to the area.
   • What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
   • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

2. 2.Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.

   • I still can't believe they had a snow leopard in that zoo. I thought they were an endangered species.

3. 3.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.

4. 4.A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

   • I still can't believe they had a snow leopard in that zoo. I thought they were an endangered species.

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