All 3 Uses of
species
in
Arrowsmith
- They ventured countryward, and lent their fleas to a species of ground squirrels which were plentiful about the village of Carib.†
Chpt 31 *
- He was daily more scornful toward the counters of paving stones, the renamers of species, the compilers of irrelevant data.†
Chpt 36
- He blundered into the effect of phage on the mutation of bacterial species—very beautiful, very delicate—and after plodding months when he had been a sane citizen, an almost good husband, an excellent bridge-player, and a rotten workman, he knew again the happiness of high taut insanity.†
Chpt 39
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