a class of organisms individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name
a category in the biological classification of living things that ranks immediately below a genus, comprises related organisms or populations potentially capable of interbreeding, and is designated by a name, e.g. Homo sapiens, that consists of the name of a genus followed by a Latin or latinized uncapitalized noun or adjective
an individual or kind belonging to a biological species
a particular kind of atomic nucleus, atom, molecule, or ion
(used before a noun) denoting a plant belonging to a biological species as distinct from a hybridized horticultural variety
a species rose
a kind or sort
a dangerous species of criminal
the consecrated bread and wine of the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Eucharist