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Specie vs Cultivar - What's the difference?

specie | cultivar |

As nouns the difference between specie and cultivar

is that specie is type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie or specie can be (proscribed) while cultivar is a cultivated variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species.

specie

English

Etymology 1

Originally in the phrase in specie; from (etyl) , ablative singular of species. Compare payment in kind.

Noun

(-)
  • Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie .
  • Money, especially in the form of coins made from precious metal, that has an intrinsic value; coinage.
  • * 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 805:
    • ‘It was not money or specie he thought himself hunting!’
  • * 2006 , (Thomas Pynchon), Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 8:
    • “Dick” Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, “Got to ‘scram,’ kid — write if you get work.”

    See also

    * payment in kind

    Etymology 2

    back-formation from species (plural), the final "s" being misinterpreted as a plural ending.

    Noun

    (head)
  • (proscribed)
    • Usage notes
    * Although in wide use, this is universally considered by prescriptive references to be an error- the standard singular, species, must be used instead.

    Anagrams

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    cultivar

    English

    (wikipedia cultivar)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cultivated variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species.