Noun

(species)

A type or kind of thing.

* (Richard Holt Hutton) (1826-1897)

What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.

# A group of plants or animals having similar appearance.

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# A rank in the classification of organisms, below genus and above subspecies; a taxon at that rank.

#* 1859 , (Charles Darwin), (On the Origin of Species) :

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.

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Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

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, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

# (label) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.

An image, an appearance, a spectacle.

# (label) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.

# Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Wit,the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.

#* (Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)

the species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet

# A public spectacle or exhibition.

(Francis Bacon)

(label) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated, so named because they retain the image of the bread and wine before their transubstantiation into the body and blood of Christ.

Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)

There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.

A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; especially, one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.

Noun

(en noun)

Diameter of the bore of a firearm, typically measured between opposite lands.

The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet, a projectile, or a column.

A nominal name for a cartridge type, which may not exactly indicate its true size and may include other measurements such as cartridge length or black powder capacity. Eg 7.62×39 or 38.40.

Unit of measure used to express the length of the bore of a weapon. The number of calibres is determined by dividing the length of the bore of the weapon, from the breech face of the tube to the muzzle, by the diameter of its bore. A gun tube the bore of which is 40 feet (480 inches) long and 12 inches in diameter is said to be 40 calibers long.

(figuratively) Relative size, importance, magnitude.

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(figuratively) Capacity or compass of mind.

(Burke)

(dated) Degree of importance or station in society.