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   species

   /ˈspiːʃɪz/

   noun

   • 1. 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.
   • 2. a kind or sort: "a species of invective at once tough and suave"
   • ▪ used humorously to refer to people who share a characteristic or occupation: "a political species that is becoming more common, the environmental statesman"
   • ▪ a particular kind of atom, molecule, ion, or particle: "a new molecular species"
   • 3. the visible form of each of the elements of consecrated bread and wine in the Eucharist.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin, literally ‘appearance, form, beauty’, from specere ‘to look’.

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