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SPECIES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specific kind of something

Example:

a species of villainy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("species" is a kind of...):

form; kind; sort; variety (a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("species" is a kind of...):

taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations)

Meronyms (parts of "species"):

variety ((biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics)

Meronyms (members of "species"):

breed; stock; strain (a special variety of domesticated animals within a species)

form; strain; var.; variant ((biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "species"):

bacteria species (a species of bacteria)

endangered species (a species whose numbers are so small that the species is at risk of extinction)

fish species (a species of fish)

type species ((biology) the species that best exemplifies the essential characteristics of the genus to which it belongs)

Holonyms ("species" is a member of...):

genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)

Credits

 Context examples: 

He bestowed his hearty approbation however on their species of house.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A species of anaerobic, Gram negative, diplococci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes.

(Acidaminococcus fermentans, NCI Thesaurus)

Any bacteria that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Acidaminococcus genus level.

(Acidaminococcus, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Acinetobacter anitratus.

(Acinetobacter anitratus, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Acidaminococcus fermentans.

(Acidaminococcus fermentans, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Acidovorax delafieldii.

(Acidovorax delafieldii, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Achromobacter xylosoxidans.

(Achromobacter xylosoxidans, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Acidovorax temperans.

(Acidovorax temperans, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Any bacteria that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Acinetobacter genus level.

(Acinetobacter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Acidovorax facilis.

(Acidovorax facilis, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)