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单词 species
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species/ʹspeeshiz/ noun (pl species /ʹspeeshiz/)

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

Biologists distinguish species criteria from species concepts. Species criteria describe how to recognize members of a species. Species concepts explain why the living world is organized into discrete species. Some species (particularly animals) exist because of interbreeding, but others (such as some plants and microbes) may not. The rise of the theory of evolution made species more difficult to define because species can change and blur into one another — Dr Mark Ridley

a kind or sort

a dangerous species of criminal

the consecrated bread and wine of the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Eucharist

[Latin species appearance, form, kind, species, from specere to look]
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