Both Uses
species
in
Anne Of Green Gables
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- Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.†
p. 71.2 *species = a similar group of animals or plants
- Ruby Gillis smuggled three blue plums over to her during testament reading; Ella May MacPherson gave her an enormous yellow pansy cut from the covers of a floral catalogue—a species of desk decoration much prized in Avonlea school.†
p. 129.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)