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7-letter words (1 found)

SPECIES,

6-letter words (7 found)

ECESIS,ESPIES,PEISES,PIECES,SPECIE,SPEISE,SPICES,

5-letter words (15 found)

CEPES,CESSE,EPICS,PEISE,PIECE,PISES,SEEPS,SEISE,SEPIC,SICES,SIPES,SPECS,SPICE,SPICS,SPIES,

4-letter words (30 found)

CEES,CEPE,CEPS,CESS,EPIC,ESES,ESSE,ICES,PECS,PEES,PICE,PICS,PIES,PISE,PISS,PSIS,SECS,SEEP,SEES,SEIS,SEPS,SESE,SICE,SICS,SIES,SIPE,SIPS,SPEC,SPIC,SPIE,

3-letter words (18 found)

CEE,CEP,CIS,ESS,ICE,PEC,PEE,PES,PIC,PIE,PIS,PSI,SEC,SEE,SEI,SIC,SIP,SIS,

2-letter words (6 found)

EE,ES,IS,PE,PI,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 78 words from species according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of species

species

Etymology

From Latin speciēs (“appearance; quality”), from speciō (“see”) + -iēs suffix signifying abstract noun. Doublet of spice.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspiːʃiːz/, /ˈspiːsiːz/. Some speakers pronounce the singular with /-ɪz/, the plural with /-iːz/.
  • Rhymes: -iːʃiːz, -iːsiːz

Noun

species (countable and uncountable, plural species or (rare, nonstandard) specieses)

  1. Type or kind. (Compare race.)
    1. A group of plants or animals in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction, usually having similar appearance.
    2. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.
    3. (chemistry, physics) A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.
    4. (mineralogy) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
  2. An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
    1. (obsolete) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.
    2. Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.
  3. (Christianity) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
  4. Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
  5. A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

Usage notes

  • Species is singular and plural (like sheep, for example). Specie is a separate word that means coin money.
  • When species cooccurs with the possessive morpheme -', it is generally still pronounced /ˈspiːʃiːz/ ~ /ˈspiːsiːz/, not */ˈspiːʃiːzɪz/ ~ /ˈspiːsiːzɪz/.
  • (biology, taxonomy): See species name, binomial nomenclature.

Derived terms

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Translations

See also

  • race
  • (taxonomy, rank):
    • domain
    • kingdom
    • phylum/division
    • class
    • order
    • family
    • genus
    • superspecies
    • species
      • subspecies, form
      • (botany, horticulture): variety, cultivar

References

  • John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “species”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Noun

species

  1. plural of specie

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

species

  1. plural of specie

Synonyms

  • speciën

Latin

Etymology

From speciō (“to see”) +‎ -iēs.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈspe.ki.eːs/, [ˈs̠pɛkieːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspe.t͡ʃi.es/, [ˈspɛːt͡ʃies]

Noun

speciēs f (genitive speciēī); fifth declension

  1. a seeing, view, look
  2. a spectacle, sight
    Synonym: faciēs
  3. external appearance, looks; general outline or shape
    Synonyms: habitus, fōrma, frōns, faciēs
  4. semblance, pretence, pretense, pretext, outward show (per + genitive)
    Synonym: obtentus
  5. show, display
  6. point of view, perspective
  7. (figuratively) vision, dream, apparition
  8. (figuratively) honor, reputation
  9. (figuratively) a kind, quality, type
  10. (law, later) a special case

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • speciātim
  • speciōsus

Descendants

References

  • “species”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “species”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • species in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

Source: wiktionary.org