abl. of L. species sort, kind. Used in the phrase in specie, that is, in sort, in kind, in (its own) form.
Coin; hard money.
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, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
A public spectacle or exhibition.
A component part of a compound medicine; a simple.
The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.