Sample Sentences for
species
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    Costa Rica had three times as many species of birds as all of North America.  (source)
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    Although a slightly smaller plant, wild sweet pea looks so much like wild potato that even expert botanists sometimes have trouble telling the species apart.  (source)
    species = a similar group of animals or plants
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    In Florida the birds were strictly protected as a Species of Special Concern, so their presence on the Mother Paula's site would have created serious legal problems—and a public-relations disaster—if it had become widely known.  (source)
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    They crowd out every other species,  (source)
    species = types of animals or plants
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    Each species of firefly has its own language of flashes.  (source)
    species = similar group of insects whose members can interbreed
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    No one can own the species called "corn."  (source)
    species = a similar group of animals or plants
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    The other was devoted to a tree diagram of all the various species of animals.  (source)
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    the fishermen called all the fish of that species tuna and only distinguished among them by their proper names when they came to sell them  (source)
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    an endangered species  (source)
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    Charles Darwin. Remember him? That big book from the library. The Origin of the Species.  (source)
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    when ... we weigh the pros and cons we are no less a credit to our species.  (source)
    species = a similar group of animals
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    He doesn't belong to a species clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live in peace with itself.  (source)
    species = a similar group of animals or plants
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    I know little about your lives, but the pattern scarcely varies wherever a pocket of the older species is trying to preserve itself.  (source)
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