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[ˈspiːsiːz], (Noun)
Definitions:
- 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 kind or sort
(e.g: a species of invective at once tough and suave)
- the visible form of each of the elements of consecrated bread and wine in the Eucharist
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Origin
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late Middle English: from Latin, literally ‘appearance, form, beauty’, from specere ‘to look’
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