SPECIES

noun a public spectacle or exhibition.

2. species ·noun a component part of compound medicine; a simple.

3. species ·noun the form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

4. species ·noun coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

5. species ·noun a sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.

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

7. species ·noun visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

8. species ·noun in science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.

9. species ·noun 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.