species

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a specific kind of something

   a species of molecule

2. 2
   noun

   A type or kind. (Compare race.)

   the male species

3. 3
   noun

   An image, an appearance, a spectacle.

   I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed

6. 6
   noun

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

7. 7
   noun

   A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

8. 8
   noun

   plural of specie

Etymology

From Latin speciēs (“appearance; quality”), from speciō (“see”) + -iēs suffix signifying abstract noun. Doublet of spice.