Species

[edit] Noun

1a: kind, sort

1b: a class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name; specifically : a logical division of a genus or more comprehensive class <confessing sins in species and in number>
1c: the human race : human beings —often used with the<survival of the species in the nuclear age>
1d (1): a category of biological classification ranking immediately below the genus or subgenus, comprising related organisms or populations potentially capable of interbreeding, and being designated by a binomial that consists of the name of a genus followed by a Latin or latinized uncapitalized noun or adjective agreeing grammatically with the genus name (2): an individual or kind belonging to a biological species e: a particular kind of atomic nucleus, atom, molecule, or ion

2: the consecrated eucharistic elements of the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Eucharist

3a: a mental image; also : a sensible object b: an object of thought correlative with a natural object

1: belonging to a biological species as distinguished from a horticultural variety <a species rose>