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a specific kind of something; "a species of molecule"; "a species of villainy"

a specific kind of something; "a species of molecule"; "a species of villainy"

Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

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.

In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.

A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.

Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

A public spectacle or exhibition.

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

The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

A group of animals or plants agreeing in common characteristics and called by a common name; a subdivision of a genus or class; kind; sort; variety.

1. A biological division between the genus and a variety or the individual. 2. (plural) A class of pharmaceutical preparations in the P.G. and N.F., consisting of a mixture of dried plants, not pulverized, but in sufficiently fine division to be conveniently used in the making of extemporaneous decoctions or infusions; a tea.

A class; a genus.

A group of individuals having common marks or characteristics:-subordinate to a GENUS.

Group agreeing in certain distinctive characteristics; sort; kind.

A kind; sort.

A class of natural objects having common qualities; a class of plants or animals such as has been or may be derived by germination or generation from a common root or stock; the subdivision of a genus; sort; kind; appearance to the senses or the mind.

A sort; a kind; a race; a group of individuals or objects sufficiently identical in all their natural qualities to justify the conclussion that they may have sprung from a common stock; a collection of like individuals produced by other individuals equally like them; a rank subordinate to a genus; a group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; in med., the component part of a compound medicine.

A term used in the natural sciences to denote a group of closely-allied individuals: the division is purely artificial.

Officinal mixtures of substances cut or bruised. Sometimes used for compound powders, as it always appears to have been formerly. See Pulvis.

Primary subdivision of a genus.

A mixture of powdered simples for infusion.

In classification, a group of individuals assumed, on account of their close similarity, to have emanated from the same stock, while specifically distinct from other groups of the same genus.

A mixture consisting chiefly of vegetable substances dried and pulverized; used in the preparation of infusions, decoctions, etc., a number of which have been introduced into the N. F. from the Ger. Phar.

n. sing. & pl. [Latin] Appearance ; image ;- appearance to the senses; visible or sensible representation;-a class; sort; kind; variety; a sub-division of a more general class or genus ;-in logic, a conception subordinated to a generic conception or genus, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals ; -in mineralogy, a class of minerals composed of the same in ants, and combined in the same proportions;-in zoology and botany, a class of individuals possessing the same forms, attributes, and properties, and transmitting the same by natural propagation;-the form or shape given to materials ; fashion ; figure ;-in pharmacy, a simple; a part of a compound medicine;-in algebra, the letters or symbols which represent quantities in an equation, &c.