species

Meaning

1. Type or kind. (Compare race.)
2. Type or kind. (Compare race.)
3. Type or kind. (Compare race.)
4. Type or kind. (Compare race.)
5. Type or kind. (Compare race.)
6. (obsolete) An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
7. An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
8. Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
9. Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
10. A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

Synonyms

kind

sort

type

class

variety

race

genus

family

👪

breed

form

tribe

seed

category

clan

genre

strain

group

origin

item

gender

lineage

set

source

stock

stripe

style

pair

variation

division

ilk

progeny

sp.

nation

nationality

order

party

🥳

pedigree

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

plant

🌱

posterity

quality

quantity

rank

respectively

sect

seeds

series

sex

👉👌

similarity

specimen

stamp

tea

🫖

version

ware

all kinds

rain tree

various kinds

community

biological species

ancestry

generic group

appearance

art form

article

assortment

brand

brood

caste

character

characteristics

color

colour

combination

commodity

company

degeneracy

denomination

descendants

descent

description

distinction

flock

gene

grass

grow

herd

heredity

image

issue

kin

kinds

line

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈspiːʃiːz/

Etymology

From Latin speciēs (“appearance; quality”), from speciō (“see”) + -iēs suffix signifying abstract noun. Doublet of spice.

Sentences

The species was originally considered already extinct at the time of its discovery .

Bathycongrus gattulatus is a species of genus Bathycongrus, family Congridae.