species

noun12

1. •
   a type of living thing whose males and females can have young that can also have young

   • This species of animal is unique to the area.
2. •
   A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.

   • 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. — 1859
3. •
   A type or kind. (Compare race.)

   • What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism. — 1871
4. •
   A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.
5. •
   A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
6. •
   An individual or kind of a biological species.
7. •
   Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

   • There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now. — 1727
8. •
   Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
9. •
   A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
10. •
    (no longer used) An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
11. •
    (no longer used) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.

    • I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope.
12. •
    (no longer used) Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.

    • 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. — 1667