All 5 Uses of
species
in
The War of the Worlds
- And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- It isn't quite according to what a man wants for his species, but it's about what the facts point to.†
Chpt 2.7
- Strange mind of man! that, with our species upon the edge of extermination or appalling degradation, with no clear prospect before us but the chance of a horrible death, we could sit following the chance of this painted pasteboard, and playing the "joker" with vivid delight.†
Chpt 2.7
- He was no longer the energetic regenerator of his species I had encountered in the morning.†
Chpt 2.7
- At any rate, in all the bodies of the Martians that were examined after the war, no bacteria except those already known as terrestrial species were found.†
Chpt 2.10
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