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.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, 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.

#*

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

(en noun)

A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.

* 1633 , (John Donne), "Sapho to Philænis":

Thoughts, my mindes creatures , often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie.

* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:

the natural truth of God is an artificial erection of Man, and the Creator himself but a subtile invention of the Creature .

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature , and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}

A living being; an animal or human.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}

A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 240:

they, too, despite the appearance of being creatures rather than creators of the Union, could assert the prior sovereignty of their states, for each had formed a state constitution […] before petitioning Congress for admission to the Union.