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Meaning Of Species
n.
Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible
percept received by the imagination; an image.
n.
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.
n.
In science, a more or less permanent group of existing
things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties
determined by scientific observation.
n.
A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a
species of generosity; a species of cloth.
n.
Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a
circulating medium; specie.
n.
A public spectacle or exhibition.
n.
A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
n.
An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp.,
one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.
n.
The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape;
form; figure.