All 4 Uses of
species
in
Great Expectations
- I always treated him as a larger species of child, and as no more than my equal.†
Chpt 2 *
- Indeed, I go so far as to hope that I regarded myself while dressing as a species of savage young wolf or other wild beast.†
Chpt 11
- So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.†
Chpt 19
- I think he was a species of purser.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(species) a group of animals or plants that are similar -- typically identified as belonging to the same group when they are of a kind that can reproduce new members of the group together