Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
species (noun)1.
a) - kind sort
b) a class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name , specifically a logical division of a genus or more comprehensive class - confessing sins in species and in number
c) the human race human beings - often used with the survival of the species in the nuclear age
d) (1) a category of biological classification ranking immediately below the genus or subgenus, comprising related organisms or populations potentially capable of interbreeding, and being designated by a binomial that consists of the name of a genus followed by a Latin or latinized uncapitalized noun or adjective agreeing grammatically with the genus name
(2) an individual or kind belonging to a biological species
e) a particular kind of atomic nucleus, atom, molecule, or ion
2.
the consecrated eucharistic elements of the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Eucharist
3.
a) a mental image , also a sensible object
b) an object of thought correlative with a natural object
belonging to a biological species as distinguished from a horticultural variety - a species rose
