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‖ infima species|ˈɪnfɪmə ˈspiːʃiːz|
Pl. infimæ species.
[f. L. infima nom. fem. of infimus lowest (see infimous a.) + species n.]
The lowest species of a classification or division; concr., an ‘infimous’ person (? obs.).
1645J. Howell Lett. I. xii. 23 Being contented to be the infima species, the lowest in the predicament of your frends. 1843Mill Logic II. iii. xxii. 134 Such generalizations..ought to be grounded upon an examination of all the infimæ species comprehended in them. 1961T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 283/1 Any one species may, in its turn, be capable of further division into species, when for that purpose it becomes a genus—and so on down to the most minute species required, the infima species. |