Species vs Sorta - What's the difference?
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A type or kind of thing.
* (Richard Holt Hutton) (1826-1897)
# A group of plants or animals having similar appearance.
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, title= # 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) :
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, title= # (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)
#* (Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
# A public spectacle or exhibition.
(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)
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.
(informal) Sort of; somewhat; not quite.
* 1912 , Caspar Whitney, Albert Britt, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction , Volume 60,
* 1993 July, Sort of a Hero'', in '' ,
(colloquial) sort of.
* 2001 , Lawrence A. Wenzel, The Sandcastle at High Tide ,
As a noun species
is .As an adverb sorta is
(informal) sort of; somewhat; not quite.As a contraction sorta is
(colloquial) sort of.species
English
(wikipedia species)Noun
(species)- What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
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.}}
- 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.
David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- 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.
- the species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet
- (Francis Bacon)
- There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.
Usage notes
* (specie) is a separate word that means coin money, not the singular version of (species). * See (species name).Derived terms
* chemical species * endangered species * microspecies * ring species * subspeciesSee also
* family * genus * kingdom * order * phylum * race * variety * binomial nomenclaturesorta
English
Adverb
(-)- The portraits on the wall aren't so useful, just sorta cool to have around
page 680,
- 'Webb,' he says sorta sorrowful like, 'it looks like a howlin' shame to have a bang-up American girl hooked up to a money-grubbin' member of the British nobility. '
page 34,
- In fact the whole thing sorta backfired on old Chuck — and on me and Pete too. Instead of laughing about it, most people thought it was pretty crummy.
Synonyms
* kindaContraction
- There's gotta be some sorta explanation.
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- He glanced at her then back at me. "What sorta research?"
- "Well, war correspondent might not be too far off," I said.