Specie
['spiːʃiː;'spiːʃɪ] or ['si]
Definition
(-) abl. of L. species sort, kind. Used in the phrase in specie, that is, in sort, in kind, in (its own) form.
(n.) Coin; hard money.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Coin, cash, metallic money, hard money, stamped money.
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Examples
- I worked over one year, twenty hours a day, Sundays and all, to get the word 'specie' perfectly recorded and reproduced on the phonograph. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I have as yet spoken as if the varieties of the same species were invariably fertile when intercrossed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Of the species which do change, only a few within the same country change at the same time; and all modifications are slowly effected. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Races came and went, species passed away, but ever new species arose, more lovely, or equally lovely, always surpassing wonder. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The difficulty in distinguishing variable species is largely due to the varieties mocking, as it were, other species of the same genus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- What had caused this species to die out? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Undoubtedly many cases occur in which we cannot explain how the same species could have passed from one point to the other. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Both species of the sequoias are evergreen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In this respect, therefore, the species of the larger genera resemble varieties, more than do the species of the smaller genera. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The results of th is would be the formation of a new species. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Several cases are on record of the same species presenting varieties in the upper and lower parts of the same formation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Wandering savages or the inhabitants of open plains rarely possess more than one breed of the same species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Here is a waste of land that might afford subsistence for so many of the human species. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- H istor y of Bodily Pains, as species of Touch. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If such gradations were not all fully preserved, transitional varieties would merely appear as so many new, though closely allied species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But why this should be a law of nature if each species has been independently created no man can explain. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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