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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, author=Donald Worster, volume=100, issue=1, page=70, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= A Drier and Hotter Future , passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}

# 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.

#* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan

, 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

(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Saj Chowdhury, work=BBC Sport

, title= Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle , passage=The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.}}

(countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}

(uncountable) The division of society into classes.

(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.

(countable, and, uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

A series of classes covering a single subject.

(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

(biology, taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

Best of its kind.

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(mathematics) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.

(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

(programming, object-oriented) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.

One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader .