Definition of Species

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Species

Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

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.

In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.

A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.

Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

A public spectacle or exhibition.

A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.

The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

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Species Quotations

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George Carlin

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mohandas Gandhi

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
Bill Cosby

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin Luther

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Thomas Paine

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James Madison

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
Ted Nugent

Species Translations

species in Dutch is soort
species in German is Sorte, Spezies, Art {f}
species in Italian is fare
species in Spanish is especie
species in Swedish is art

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