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Type or kind. (Compare race.)

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the male species

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An image, an appearance, a spectacle.

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Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.

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

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A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

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

Most of the known rhino species are West African.

Buffalo are a different species – like the water buffalo.

Some species show fermentative power.

In size the male African elephant often surpasses the Asiatic species, reaching nearly 12 ft.

Specialized species like Mastodon americanus have completely lost the rudimentary premolars.

The 2000s saw the rise of commercially viable seeds created by transgenesis, that is, the insertion of DNA from one species into another species.

Why has man just these species of animals for his neighbors; as if nothing but a mouse could have filled this crevice?

Allied to the pine-grosbeak are a number of species of smaller size, but its equals in beauty of plumage.'

The African elephant is a very different animal from its Asiatic cousin, both as regards structure and habits; and were it not for the existence of intermediate extinct species, might well be regarded as the representative of a distinct genus.

Unlike the African species, the Indian elephant charges with its trunk curled up, and consequently in silence.

In 1894 and 1895, Fischer, in a remarkable series of papers on the influence of molecular structure upon the action of the enzyme, showed that various species of yeast behave very differently towards solutions of sugars.

Three species of deer are common.

It is now filled with the smooth sumach (Rhus glabra), and one of the earliest species of goldenrod (Solidago stricta) grows there luxuriantly.

More than 2000 species of insects have been classified.

I thought I might just as well describe my pet in order to know it--order, vertebrate; division, quadruped; class, mammalia; genus, felinus; species, cat; individual, Tabby.

Throughout Britain, as a rule, this species is one of the most plentiful birds, and is found at all seasons of the year.

Amongst hardy species of Nymphaea now much grown are candida, nitida, odorata, pygmaea and tuberosa, all with white, more or less sweet-scented flowers; flava, yellow, and sphaerocarpa, rose-carmine.

In this connexion it is of interest to note that, both in the Mediterranean islands and in West Africa, dwarf elephants of the African type are accompanied by pigmy species of hippopotamus, although we have not yet evidence to show that in Africa the two animals occupy actually the same area.

North Borneo is especially rich in species.

There are about 600 species in the family, the males being usually larger than the females, and remarkable for the size of their mandibles.

The true mushroom itself is to a great extent a dung-borne species, therefore mushroom-beds are always liable to an invasion from other dung-borne forms. The spores of all fungi are constantly floating about in the air, and when the spores of dung-infesting species alight on a mushroom-bed they find a nidus already prepared that exactly suits them; and if the spawn of the new-comer becomes more profuse than that of the mushroom the stranger takes up his position at the expense of the mushroom.

In the same species, however, great variation occurs in the development of the mandibles, and the breadth of the head varies correspondingly, the smallest type of male being but little different in appearance from the female.

The Scarabaeidae or chafers are an enormous famil y of about 15,000 species.

Many bird parasites belonging to the Rippoboscidae have naturally been carried about the world by their hosts, while other species, such as the house-fly, blow-fly and drone-fly, have in like manner been disseminated by human agency.

That is because the state is home to almost four dozen species of snakes.

The better plan is to discard at once all fungi which have not been gathered from open pastures; by this act alone more than nine-tenths of worthless and poisonous species will be excluded.

Most of the species are esteemed good eating by the natives of the countries in which they live.

It may open either forward or backwards; and although present in the great majority of the species, and enclosing the teats, it may, as in many of the opossums, be completely absent, when the teats extend in two rows along the whole length of the under-surface of the body.

Some two dozen distinct species have been described as occurring in man.

The two living species are distinguishable at a glance.

Species of 51 more seem to occur as true natives within the Ethiopian and Indian regions, and besides these 18 appear to be common to the Ethiopian without being found in the Indian, and no fewer than 71 to the Indian without occurring in the Ethiopian.

The Nitidulidae are a large family with 1600 species, among which members of the genus Meligethes are often found in numbers feeding on blossoms, while others live under the bark of trees and prey on the grubs of boring beetles.

In the European species of Sitaris and Meloe these little larvae have the instinct of clinging to any hairy object.

Many instances of exaggerated and apparently unnatural structure nevertheless occur, as in the case of the genera Pangonia, Nemestrina, Achias, Diopsis and the family Celyphidae, .and, as might be expected, it is chiefly in tropical species that these peculiarities are found.

To a geographical distribution of the widest extent, Diptera add a range of habits of the most diversified nature; they are both animal and vegetable feeders, an enormous number of species acting, especially in the larval state, as scavengers in consuming putrescent or decomposing matter of both kinds.

The only indigenous land mammalia are a small rat and a few curious species of bats.

On the 21st day of the sale of Bullock's Museum in 1819, Lot 38 is entered in the Catalogue as "The Tail Feather of a magnificent undescribed Trogon," and probably belonged to this species.

The cock has a fine yellow bill and a head bearing a rounded crest of filamentous feathers; lanceolate scapulars overhang the wings, and from the rump spring the long flowing plumes which are so characteristic of the species, and were so highly prized by the natives before the Spanish conquest that no one was allowed to kill the bird when taken, but only to divest it of its feathers, which were to be worn by the chiefs alone.

While it is important to know how to identify snakes, with so many snake species it is equally important to have a good guide and learn the facts.

Restaurants located all over the island prepare many species of fish, crab, lobster, shrimp, and shellfish using a diversity of techniques.

It is hunted chiefly for the sake of the ivory of its immense tusks, of which it yields the principal source of supply to the European market, and the desire to obtain which is rapidly leading to the extermination of the species.

The species of the Of d World which, though commonly called "grosbeaks," certainly belong to the family Ploceidae, are treated under WEAVER-BIRD.

A good deal also depends on the species of tree.

The species most liable to be struck are oaks, poplars and pear trees; beech trees are exceptionally safe.

Of wild animals may be noted the moufflon (Ovis Ammon), the stag, and the wild boar, and among birds various species of the vulture and eagle in the mountains, and the pelican and flamingo (the latter coming in August in large flocks from Africa) in the lagoons.

Among birds of prey may be mentioned the eagle and various species of hawk, and among game-birds the partridge and pheasant.

Sixty species of parrots, some of them very handsome, are found in Australia.

This species and many others do not extend to Tasmania.

One species can utter a cry when pained or alarmed, and the tall-standing frilled lizard can lift its forelegs, and squat or hop like a kangaroo.

Five rather common species are certainly deadly - the death adder, the brown, the black, the superb and the tiger snakes.