species

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A type or kind. (Compare race.)

   “the male species”

2. isim A group of sexually reproducing organisms of which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction, usually having similar appearance.

   “This species of animal is unique to the area.”

3. isim A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.

   “Hence, in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment and wide experience seems the only guide to follow.”

4. isim An individual or kind of a biological species.
5. isim A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.
6. isim A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
7. isim The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.

   “I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope.”

8. isim Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.

   “Wit,[…]the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.”

9. isim Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
10. isim Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

    “There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.”

11. isim A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
12. isim plural of specie