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

(lb) The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.

* (1800-1859)

*:Nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

*1891 , (Oscar Wilde), ''(The Decay of Lying)

*:Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.

The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.

*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), , Ch.1:

*:Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.

*1869 , , :

*:Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.

The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:I oft admire / How Nature , wise and frugal, could commit / Such disproportions.

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Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Kind, sort; character; quality.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:A dispute of this nature caused mischief.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

(lb) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:my days of nature

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Oppressed nature sleeps.

(lb) Natural affection or reverence.

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Have we not seen / The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, / Through violated nature force his way?