specieses

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A form of species — A type or kind. (Compare race.)

Scrabble 13

Meanings

noun
  1. nonstandardpluralrareplural of species

    […], and by consequence their language, would at first be confined to the lowest specieses, unless where it happened that the specific differences of such specieses were not so readily to be distinguished.

    1774, Lord James Burnett Monboddo, Of the Origin and Progress of Language, page 526
    2 more examples

    A Proposition of Relation, of the kind to be here discussed, has, for its Terms, two Specieses of the same Genus, such that each of the two Names conveys the idea of some Attribute not conveyed by the other.

    1897, Lewis Carroll, Symbolic Logic: Part 1, Elementary, page 12

    We distinguish in the universe of phenomena two groups, specieses and representatives of specieses. This relation does not depend on the fact, if there is on these specieses and their representatives the question about specieses and ...

    1942, Francè Veber, There is a God
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