species

1. A type or kind. (Compare race.)Examples: "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."; "Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants."; "Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better."countableuncountable

2. A type or kind. (Compare race.)countableuncountable

3. A type or kind. (Compare race.)countableuncountable

4. An image, an appearance, a spectacle.Examples: "I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope."countableobsoleteuncountable

5. (Christianity) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.countableuncountable